Sentences with phrase «nearly reach the surface»

Truck size colonies of boulder coral 10 — 12 feet high nearly reach the surface and provide refuge to a wide variety of marine life.

Truck size colonies of boulder coral 10 - 12 feet (3.5 meters) high nearly reach the surface and provide refuge to a wide variety of marine life.

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In 2012, the Russian Antarctic Expedition completed drilling through nearly 4 kilometers of ice to reach the surface of subglacial Lake Vostok.

Without the ozone layer, ultraviolet rays from the sun would reach the surface at nearly full force, causing skin cancer and, more seriously, killing off the tiny photosynthetic plankton in the ocean that provide oxygen to the atmosphere and bolster the bottom of the food chain.

The comet's coma washed over the planet for several hours, with the dense inner coma reaching, or nearly reaching, the surface.

The data from Keck Observatory shows that peroxide is widespread across much of the surface of Europa, and the highest concentrations are reached in regions where Europa's ice is nearly pure water with very little sulfur contamination.

Lobate scarps are cliffs caused by thrust faults that have broken the surface and reach up to a height of nearly two miles.

Truck sized colonies of boulder coral 10 — 12 feet (3.5 meters) high nearly reach the ocean surface and provide refuge to a wide variety of marine life.

Currently, the first accessible part of the island has a surface area of about 5 square kilometers with nearly 25 quests / missions to play in order to reach the end of it.

The dark rain - laden clouds are not reflective but they nevertheless intercept the nearly all of the Sun's radiation and prevent it from reaching the surface.

Fourier, Tyndall and most other scientists for nearly a century used this approach, looking at warming from ground level, so to speak, asking about the radiation that reaches and leaves the surface of the Earth.