Sentences with phrase «lake over millions of years»

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Bibra Lake - based ZBB Energy Corporation will receive $ 3.1 million over two years in project funding from the Department of the Environment and Water Resources Advanced Electricity Storage Technologies program, the company has announced.

Three of seven regions — the Southern Tier, the Finger Lakes and Center New York — received $ 500 million over the next five years in the Upstate Revitalization Initiative competition, which critics called the «Hunger Games» because it pitted areas of the state against one another, creating clear winners and losers.

MTA power bills will be up by about $ 9 million in 2017, and will increase even more over the lifetime of the 12 - year, $ 7.6 billion plan to support the plants on Lake Ontario, says Stop the Cuomo Tax, a group opposed to the ratepayer bailout.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Onondaga County Legislature on Tuesday voted to spend $ 2.5 million a year from a new casino revenue stream to build a new Onondaga Lake amphitheater and upgrades to Solvay's infrastructure over the objections of some members.

In addition, they are looking for traces of rivers, lakes, and saltwater bays, which will reveal the region's climate over the course of 2 to 3 million years.

Over the last 20 years ichthyologist Barry Chernoff has collected more than a quarter - million fish in the lakes, ponds, and rivers of South America.

The well - known Australopithecus afarensis fossil we call Lucy, for example, lived a little over 3 million years ago in Ethiopia's Afar region, roughly 700 miles northeast of Lake Turkana.

What is now Lake Whillans was probably covered and uncovered by the ice sheet dozens of times as the climate swung back and forth over the past 20 million years.

But for some reason, the terrain beneath the trough slowly gained elevation over millions of years, and those lakes gradually gave way to a long - lived region of wetlands covering an area the size of Egypt or larger.

These tiny shells fall to the bottom of lakes and oceans over millions of years, accumulating in massive white deposits that are then mined and crushed to a fine powder.

Over the last 15 years, the life - saving mission Lake Shore helped to develop has gained momentum, as more people choose adoption, and as public awareness of the needless euthanasia of millions of animals has penetrated the conscience of the nation.

Lake Atitlan in Guatemala — the 1.8 - million - year - old 600 - meter - deep volcanic lake located a couple hours from Guatemala City — is usually the highlight of anyone's trip to the country, with its picturesque volcanoes towering over the lake, the small villages clustered along the shorelines and the chocolate shaman who seek spiritual enlightenment in cups of coLake Atitlan in Guatemala — the 1.8 - million - year - old 600 - meter - deep volcanic lake located a couple hours from Guatemala City — is usually the highlight of anyone's trip to the country, with its picturesque volcanoes towering over the lake, the small villages clustered along the shorelines and the chocolate shaman who seek spiritual enlightenment in cups of colake located a couple hours from Guatemala City — is usually the highlight of anyone's trip to the country, with its picturesque volcanoes towering over the lake, the small villages clustered along the shorelines and the chocolate shaman who seek spiritual enlightenment in cups of colake, the small villages clustered along the shorelines and the chocolate shaman who seek spiritual enlightenment in cups of cocoa.

After nine years and over $ 564 million, the Bürgenstock Resort — a mini-village of four hotels, restaurants, and bars set high on a forested ridge above the lake — is making a comeback.

The other dramatic feature is the Sea Lake Ao Pileh, which has been eroded over millions of years, the clear crystal waters are perfect for swimming.

Visit the magnificent Blue Lake, a 5000 year old extinct volcano and some Limestone formations mother earth has created over millions of years.

The 150,000 tonnes of methane bubbling up from sediment in the retention lake on the river Are over a year are the equivalent of emissions from 2,000 cows, or 25 million kilometres (15.5 million miles) travelled by cars, EAWAG added in a statement.

Natural gas reserves come from large quantities of plant and animal remains that have accumulated between layers of sediment on the bottoms of lakes and oceans over millions of years.