Sentences with phrase «km depth»

Monash University geoscientist Associate Professor Wouter Schellart, and his colleague Professor Wim Spakman from Utrecht University, have discovered how the floor of an entire ocean basin that was destroyed 70 to 50 million years ago off the North coast of New Guinea is currently located at 800 - 1200 km depth below Central and South - eastern Australia.

Old Faithful is an iconic example of a hydrothermal feature, and particularly of the features in Yellowstone National Park, which is underlain by two active magma reservoirs at depths of 5 to 40 km depth that provide heat to the overlying near - surface groundwater.

The indenter is breaking from the crust that preceded it, forming the Bucamaranga nest, which is a dense area of seismic activity in a small volume of crust at about 140 km depth.

«Our seismic investigations found a distinctive high - velocity anomaly in the lower crust between 20 and 40 km depth.»

With an assumed diameter of the plume heads of up to several thousand kilometers, the amount of hot material ascending from the core mantle boundary at 2900 km depth is sufficient to migrate through the continental lithosphere.

If so, a future Phase 2 project could drill deep exploration wells (> 1 km depth) to design a functional and economically beneficial geothermal system.

Note that the layers below 2.5 km depth have much smaller changes in heat content compared with the surface.