Sentences with phrase «mile deep covering»

Speaking at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Konrad Steffen of the University of Colorado, Boulder, painted a grim picture of Greenland's current state, describing the amount of ice it lost over the past year as «the equivalent of two times all the ice in the Alps or a layer of water more than one - half - mile deep covering Washington, D.C.»

Not exact matches

«With ESPN and the way sports were distributed before on cable, [viewers] were really watching programming that was a mile wide and an inch deep and really only covered their passions maybe a small, little bit,» he says.

The following analogy might help: Cover the entire North American continent in dimes all the way up to the moon, a height of about 239,000 miles (In comparison, the money to pay for the U.S. federal government debt would cover one square mile less than two feet deep with dimCover the entire North American continent in dimes all the way up to the moon, a height of about 239,000 miles (In comparison, the money to pay for the U.S. federal government debt would cover one square mile less than two feet deep with dimcover one square mile less than two feet deep with dimes.).

Enceladus may be covered in an icy shell, but beneath the surface lies a globe - spanning liquid ocean about 37 miles (60 km) deep.

Occator itself is 60 miles (90 kilometers) in diameter, and its central pit, covered by this bright material, measures about 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide and 0.3 miles (0.5 kilometers) deep.

The AIR study frequently criticizes American math texts for being an inch deep and a mile wide, covering a great range of topics with little time spent on developing the material, including mastery of math facts.

I think that we teach way too many subjects, and we cover way too much material, and the end result is that students have a very superficial knowledge, as we often say, a mile wide and an inch deep.

Rather than racing to cover topics in a mile - wide, inch - deep curriculum, CCR standards require us to significantly narrow and deepen the way time and energy are spent in the math classroom.

The former, dressed in a coat of deep black paintwork and featuring the rare manual gearbox option, was bought new by Elton John in May 1997, and has covered fewer than 9000 miles since.

Having covered a remarkable 16,827 miles with just one extraordinarily fastidious owner from new, the deep mirror shine to the factory original paint finish is impeccable and the car is well known to the Concours Team at PCGB (Porsche Club Great Britain).

; Finished in the gorgeous Grigio grey metallic with full black leather interior and deep piano black gloss trim, covered a very low 36000 miles from new with a full documented Maserati main dealer service history with a rcent visit to Masterati / Ferrari Lyndhurst.

Sheer river banks rise up, towering over the river below, covered in deep forests and miles of green vineyards, lending an almost ethereal feel to the waterway.

[260][261][262] Larger than the slide that blocked the highway in 1983 at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State park, it covered one - quarter - mile -LRB-.40 km) of the highway and buried it up to 80 feet (24 m) deep in some places.

PHYSICAL FEATURES & CLIMATE The site covers a succession of environments from mangrove cayes, across lagoons, the Hol Chan Channel, eastward over the back - reef to the reef crest, and then for a further 0.75 miles out past the fore reef towards the deep sea.

The geophysical record of the Earth tells the story of warm periods and huge dinosaurs that once flourished and then perished and ice ages and long periods when mile - deep glaciers covered the lands.

There is little doubt now that England will soon be covered with ice a mile deep, once again turning that hardy race into wandering tribes of gardeners, as they were during Victoria's reign (may she rest in peace).