Sentences with phrase «kilometers underground»

Research at the observatory, 2 kilometers underground in a mine near Sudbury, Ontario, demonstrated that neutrinos change their type — or «flavor» — on their way to Earth from the sun.

But they have been assumed to exist, originating near where Earth's core meets the mantle, almost 3,000 kilometers underground — nearly halfway to the planet's center.

Known as Desulforudis audaxviator, the rod - shaped bacterium thrives 2.8 kilometers underground in a habitat devoid of the things that power the vast majority of life on Earth — light, oxygen, and carbon.

DENVER — Ecosystems kilometers underground seem to thrive on food made via nuclear reactions, according to research presented here 14 February at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes ScienceNOW.

The bottoms of these plates can be hundreds of kilometers underground, making them much too thick to drill through.

American Electric Power will begin capturing at best just over 3 percent of the 8.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted by its 1,300 - MW Mountaineer Power Plant in West Virginia later this year and injecting the CO2 more than three kilometers underground.

It would send beams of neutrinos and antineutrinos along a 1,300 - kilometer underground path to a detector in the Homestake mine near Lead, South Dakota.

Such defective borehole walls can provide a conduit for the methane to move from the shale formation, more than a kilometer underground, to water wells just a hundred meters or so below the surface.

The Xib particles, like all new species discovered at the LHC (including the famed Higgs boson), arose in the aftermath of collisions between speeding protons inside the accelerator's 27 - kilometer underground ring.

Franklin's previous book, 33 Men, offered a behind - the - scenes account of the Chilean miners trapped nearly a kilometer underground, became a national bestseller in the U.S. and UK, and was translated into nineteen languages.

Not exact matches

Comprising 70 kilometers of contiguous claims in a core district for Goldcorp, the highly - prospective Borden Gold project currently has reported underground constrained indicated resources of 1.6 million ounces of gold (9.3 Mt @ 5.39 g / t) and inferred resources of 0.4 million ounces of gold (3Mt @ 4.37 g / t) at a 2.5 g / t gold cut - off grade.

The only signs of the pipe are a gap in the trees that stretches for kilometers, a tiny yellow marker that says «Warning: Carbon Dioxide Pipeline,» and a little shack that houses the pumps that keep the CO2 moving underground and pressurized.

Pakistan has replied to India's recent round of nuclear tests with five underground explosions today in the desolate Chagai region in Baluchistan province barely 50 kilometers from the Iranian border.

Following a 2012 earthquake that rattled Costa Rica, researchers noticed that the quake fractured underground rock tens of kilometers from its epicenter.

The detonations took place at the nuclear test site in southern Nevada, where between 1951 and 1992 the U.S. government set off 828 underground nuclear tests and 100 atmospheric ones, whose mushroom clouds were seen from Las Vegas, 100 kilometers away.

This first - of - a-kind simulation also captured the impact of this ground movement on buildings within a 100 - square kilometer (km) radius of the rupture, as well as 30 km underground.

For over three years, the scientists have been collecting data on the flight of neutrinos — those mysterious, nearly massless particles that can travel through anything at immense speed — originating in the SPS accelerator at CERN, near Geneva, and traveling underground all the way to Gran Sasso, 731 kilometers (about 450 miles) away.

Its arms will be 10 kilometers long and will be built in tunnels more than 100 meters underground.

This 500 - kilometer - wide ice ball shoots out large geysers of ice crystals, which apparently originate from underground lakes near the satellite's south pole.

The protons will travel 27 kilometers along the ring - shaped underground tunnel.

But to give you a sense of the challenge, here are his estimates of the scale of the challenge: six billion metric tons of coal burned every year, producing 18 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide and requiring an underground storage volume of 30,000 cubic kilometers per year with untold consequences on subsurface pressure, mineral composition and the like.

(Twenty - seven kilometers of tunnel underground Designed with mind to send protons around A circle that crosses through Switzerland and France Sixty nations contribute to scientific advance Two beams of protons swing round, through the ring they ride»Til in the hearts of the detectors, they're made to collide And all that energy packed in such a tiny bit of room Becomes mass, particles created from the vacuum And then...)

The researchers found that the underground portion of the Hayward Fault meets the Calaveras Fault 10 kilometers farther north than where the creeping surface traces of both faults meet.

The data show that Io's magma exists in an underground layer that lies about 20 to 30 miles (30 to 50 kilometers) beneath the surface, between the crust and the mantle.

It is a river that stretches down for 8.2 kilometers, making it the largest underground river in the world, and recently named one of the 7 natural wonders of the world!

The underground river, also known as the St. Paul or Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, is an 8.2 - kilometer navigable underground river that runs beneath the limestone karst mountain that flows directly into the South China Sea.

The underground river is about 50 kilometers north of the city center of Puerto Princesa.

Already a Unesco World Heritage Site, the underground river which is in barangay Sabang, 81 kilometers north of the city, has been voted one of the final 28 sites for the New 7 Wonders of Nature campaign, a contest which aims to attract more than 1 billion votes from 220 nations across the world.

Although the underground river running through Barton Creek Cave extends for at least five miles, only the first mile (1.6 kilometers) is safe for public exploration.

Declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999, it houses the 8.2 kilometer - long Puerto Princesa Underground River, which is believed to be the world's longest navigable underground river.

If all 22.6 million cubic kilometers of freshwater stored underground reached the oceans, sea level would rise 204 feet (62,430 millimeters).

So carbon neutral means conserving black coal deposits underground and mowing down thousands of square kilometers of forests.

In cooperation with AEP, the French company Alstom unveiled the world's largest carbon capture facility at a coal plant, so called «clean coal,» which will store around 100,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide a year 2,1 kilometers (7,200 feet) underground.