Sentences with phrase «land mass as»

Ah, I am just a civil engineer, but surely energy gets stored in the land mass as well as in the oceans.

As far from every other major land mass as it can possibly be, Midway acts as a perfect example for the state of our planet.

The circumpolar cyclone is not interrupted by land mass as it is in the north and constantly blow from west to east.

The opposite effect happens in the southern hemisphere but because glaciers need land anchors and the northern hemisphere has twice the land mass as the southern hemisphere the northern hemisphere is the trigger.

To the very south is Singapore, which shares the same land mass as Malaysia.

Experience a comprehensive overview of the Torres Strait Islands and the huge Peninsula land mass as you return to Cairns by air.

Anyone that is within the same land mass as them.

Referring to the land mass as one of riches may become more literal than figurative with the abolishment of the National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca), that will now be vulnerable to legal destruction for the purpose of mining the many resources in its reserves.

When it came to the crust we decided to form the oceans and the land masses as well as the polar regions.

Not exact matches

Part of its being «without form and void» was that the continents (or continent, as it may have originally been one land mass) had not been formed (raised up above water level) yet.

Ignorant and greedy masses, without environmental ethics or social supervision, can destroy our land nearly as quickly as corporate machines.

Central and eastern Europe didn't break free of the shackles of totalitarianism without trying, failing, and then trying again: It took a critical mass of people, determined to «live in the truth» no matter how difficult, to implode the communist culture of the lie and give a new birth of freedom to the lands Stalin claimed as his prize for helping beat Hitler.

This has led Arthur H. Robinson, professor emeritus of cartography at the University of Wisconsin and author of the most widely used textbook on cartography, Elements of Cartography (John Wiley, 1984), to describe the Gall - Peters land - masses as «somewhat reminiscent of wet, ragged, long winter - underwear hung out to dry on the Arctic Circle» («Arno Peters and His New Cartography,» The American Cartographer, October 1985)

When the mass immigration of Jews to America was taking place early in this century, most of the more learned Jews stayed in Europe or went to the Land of Israel, then known as Palestine.

Across the Asian land mass came such exotic spices as ginger, saffron, cardamom, cinnamon, and black pepper.

I watch football for enjoyment, not as a petty celebration of the arbitrary land mass I happened to be born on.

When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952, Winston Churchill, her first prime minister, heralded the coming of the new reign in the House of Commons as marking «a golden age of... science and machinery», in which the nations of the world would be able to produce «an undreamed - of prosperity with culture and leisure ever more widely spread can come, perhaps even easily and swiftly, to the masses of the people in every land».

While he didn't go nearly as far as his fellow GOP leader in office for the 9/11 attacks, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who said he once told President Bush he wanted to execute bin Laden himself, Pataki did say he was «happy» to hear that «this butcher, this mass murder» is finally no longer in the land of the living.

A highly - placed government source told Gay City that de Blasio reversed himself on the bill to court Greenfield's support as chair of the Land Use Committee for his faltering mass re-zoning plan that includes affordable housing.

Since 2007, Beijing elites have been hyping East Asia as a land mass uniquely placed to bring about an «ecological civilisation», underpinned by the Confucian belief in harmony with nature.

Because organic agriculture produces on average only half the yield of crops per unit of land as conventional farming, any mass conversion to organic would end up using much more land.

The coastline was barely recognizable; what had been one of the most beautiful and regular harbors in Asia now was an obstacle course, littered with masses of black pumice stone, tree trunks burnt and splintered as if by lightning, and the prows of previously sunken ships which the ocean had thrown onto land.

In addition to the atmosphere, models must also include other key earthly elements, such as the ocean, land masses and even sea ice.

The researchers identified the land mass connecting Asia with North America, the Bering land bridge, as the most likely location.

A supercontinent last formed 300 million years ago, when all the land masses grouped together on the equator as Pangaea, centered about where West Africa is now.

Desert lands cover about a quarter of Earth's land mass and are home to some half a billion people and yet they are commonly portrayed as extreme places with marginalized communities.

«The land ice in the Arctic and very likely in the Antarctic is losing mass and shrinking, and the sea ice in the Arctic is shrinking, all as expected in world warming from our CO2,» Alley said.

During the Permian all land masses were joined together in a single super-continent known as Pangea, located approximately on today's Equator and reaching as far as the Poles.

The argument is that the increased separation of the Antarctic land mass from South America led to the creation of the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar Current which acted as a kind of water barrier and effectively blocked the warmer, less salty waters from the North Atlantic and Central Pacific from moving southwards towards the Antarctic land mass leading to the isolation of the Antarctic land mass and lowered temperatures which allowed the ice sheets to form.

As soon as Europeans charted the shapes of the continents in the New World, they began to wonder if those land masses had once fit together, with South America snuggling up to AfricAs soon as Europeans charted the shapes of the continents in the New World, they began to wonder if those land masses had once fit together, with South America snuggling up to Africas Europeans charted the shapes of the continents in the New World, they began to wonder if those land masses had once fit together, with South America snuggling up to Africa.

The collective fresh water discharge of this region is more than four times greater than the mighty Yukon River of Alaska and Canada, and half again as much as the Mississippi River, which drains all or part of 31 states and a land mass more than six times as large.

Fossil evidence also suggested that dinosaurs possibly originated in the northern part of the planet on the land mass known as Laurasia, in what is now the United Kingdom, instead of on the southern region known as Gondwana.

As the cold eased and some of the ice melted, the land mass began to rebound, flexing slowly upward.

Abstract: Models investigating the effects of climate change and human - led land - use change on biodiversity have arrived at alarming conclusions, with the worst case scenarios suggesting extinction rates at such a level as to constitute a sixth mass extinction event in the earth's history.

Grant joined PNNL in 2010 as the inaugural Linus Pauling distinguished postdoctoral fellow and started investigating catalytically relevant processes using ion soft landing and highly sensitive mass spectrometry.

For the purposes of this article, Prehistoric Britain is Britain during the period between the first arrival of humans on the land mass now known as Great Need to Register or Re-register your Vespa?

This means, as Nintendo World Report points out, that in terms of land mass, Xenoblade Chronicles X is actually bigger than The Witcher 3, Skyrim and Fallout 4 combined.

Já, Olga Hepnarová (I, Olga, Tomáš Weinre & Petr Kazda, 2016) The Lure «s Michalina Olszańska — watch out for her; she's gonna be huuuge — as the eponymous queer Czech true crime automotive mass - murderer destined to be the last woman executed in the Czech lands, in a debut feature aesthetically harkening back to the austerity of Dreyer and Bresson and with particular resonances with each of their takes on Joan of Arc's trials and tribulations?

In the comics, the Secret Wars happened when Doctor Doom used cosmic power to preserve pieces of various lands from different dimensions of the Marvel Multiverse, combining them into a Frankenstein land mass known as «Battleworld.»

Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, and Tessa Thompson star as explorers and scientists on a mission to explore a colorful, spectral disturbance called «The Shimmer» that is engorging a mass of land in the American South.

Using Google Earth to investigate Earth's structures, formations, and land masses is easy, as nearly all locations are surveyed, mapped, and can even be searched with coordinates.

A group of Education Masters students I was teaching happened have representatives from almost every major land - mass around the world and, as they were all practising teachers, this was too good a chance to miss.

There is such complete control of the mass of this land - lubbing mega-yacht that it feels heavier than its 4745 - pound curb weight just by sheer power of the kinetic energy you feel as you fussilade down the highway.

They stared at it as if ensnared, the mass of multicoloured land that delineated the African continent, the regimented lines of borders, the names of countries they hadn't even known existed until they saw them printed on the map.

The Rocky Mountains, commonly referred to as the «Rockies», are a mountainous region that stretch 3,000 miles from the northern-most part of British Columbia in Western Canada, to New Mexico in the Southwest United States.The striking landscape is surrounded by public parks and forest lands, which over the years have drawn in mass amounts of tourism, particularly -LSB-...]

The world's largest mass land migration with around two million animals on the move is an awe - inspiring sight, a quite breathtaking spectacle, as wildebeest, zebras, gazelle and eland make their journey from the Serengeti to the Masai Mara.

Although not as large as San Andreas in land mass, the world of Liberty City is one filled with skyscrapers, and tons of building interiors.

Whilst Automatron aimed to please in terms of companion customisation, and Wasteland Workshop with a massive influx of settlement construction options, Far Harbor looks to me like it is designed to cover everything, offering new weapons, new characters, new settlements, and new workshop items as well as an actual moving vehicle to ferry the player to and from the new land mass.

While helicopters are great for traveling between land masses, the wingsuit brings with it the joy of flight, operating as if you had stepped into the shoes of the Dark Knight himself.

It was also the week where at the very start of it, came the discovery of Mario Costume # 112, when not only was a Data miner able to make the discovery of Super Mario Land's Sky Pop plane, but also uploaded it as part of a level so the likes of the masses could see it and try out the costume in action.