Sentences with phrase «of land mass»

Given that the rainforest accounts for about 57 per cent of the land mass of the island, there is plenty to explore.

With 40 percent of its land mass covered by tropical forests, many Latin American countries have a tremendous opportunity to reduce their global warming emissions.

Despite being a relatively small area in terms of land mass, there are a large number of tropical habitats: rain forests, coastal wetlands, mountain forests, among others.

The team's early results show that the ocean retains areas of open water in the tropics, even when glaciers cover much of the land mass.

The city is spread out along 35 miles of oceanfront and almost 500 square miles of land mass.

The sea is dragged up by the gravity of land masses hence the level is up to 2 metres lower in the deep oceans than at shore edges.

Places in the center of a land mass have dry climates.

The city is spread out along 35 miles of oceanfront and almost 500 square miles of land mass.

About 14 percent of the land mass in the...

If Antarctica were to rise this would not lessen the gravitational field as measured from space — by means of the differential influence of the gravitational field on two satellites separated by some distance as in the Grace Experiment — except insofar as the rising of the land mass pushed water away from Antarctica's coasts — but then the loss of mass would be in the waters surrounding Antarctica, not Antarctica itself.

Steven Bingler of Concordia, an urban planning group, has been helping Louisiana officials move people from Isle de Jean Charles, which has lost the vast majority of its land mass to the ocean in recent decades.

As we know beyond question, such conversations as Columbus had with scholars at the behest of the Spanish crown did not deal with questions of the earth's roundness but of its size and the location of land masses.

The scientists believe that the growth of sea ice until 2.6 million years ago was partly due to the considerable exhumation of the land masses in the circum - Arctic that occurred during this period.

The following year an extreme La Niña caused flooding so severe that it displaced 200 million people in China, submerged half of the land mass of Bangladesh, and spurred on the North Atlantic hurricane season, where the deadliest hurricane in history occurred, Hurricane Mitch.

· Manuel Antonio National Park is made up of 1700 acres of land mass and 135,906 acres of marine reserve home to the rare two - toed sloth, white - faced and squirrel monkeys, soaring hawks, pelicans and kingfishers not to mention the abundance of tropical species.

Despite its relatively small size, the island has aroused great interest among both scientists and naturalists, with two - thirds of its land mass declared a national park.

You can change the map in several ways such as the configuration of the land masses, size of the overall terrain, types of tiles with temperature, and choosing up to 7 enemy civilizations to compete against.

This continental margin comprises a number of seafloor elevations and forms the submerged prolongation of the land mass of Canada.

But matters are greatly complicated by atmospheric circulation patterns, cyclic changes in temperatures over the oceans, and the shapes of land masses.

Sharing part of the land mass with the island of Haiti, you may not have heard that the Dominican Republic North coast enjoys some of the best waves to be found in the entire Caribbean region.

So we should, particularly with six ships, have plenty of landed mass to construct the propellant depot, which will consist of a large array of solar panels — very large array — and then everything necessary to mine and refine water, and then draw the CO2 out of the atmosphere, and then create and store deep - cryo CH4 and O2.

The area which might be called Christendom was only a small segment of the globe and was mostly the western peninsula of the land mass of Eurasia.

«Kentucky is a very largely dry area, with about 80 percent of the land mass dry counties,» Hand estimates.

Zehner says that the agency plans to build and launch at least five «sentinel» satellites to monitor not only trace gases that indicate pollution in the atmosphere, but also the surface temperature of the oceans, the movement of ice and the shifting of land masses.

Yet, in many cases, statistical dating of evolutionary events indicated that the breakup of land masses occurred tens of millions of years before some species» ancestors evolved, bringing into question the validity of vicariance methods.

These regions occupy about 60 per cent of the land mass of the country.

The sheer volume of land mass is astounding, the amount of missions to tackle will take you a while to get through and the downright number of cool weapons should keep any serious FPS fan satiated until the next blockbuster drops.

Although a couple of land masses are now in the recently released 3.0 work - in - progress version of the game, there's no date for when the system will actually be live.

Sea levels are effected by movement of land masses both upward and downward, changes in gravitational pulls on the water due to changes in ice masses.

The first is that the models depicting the rate of land mass rising in the antarctic are mistaken.

Bourke could be one of the top ten most influential temperature sites in the world, mostly by virtue of being miles from anywhere, and used to homogenize a large slab of the land mass of Australia.

Because of the orientation of land masses, mountain ranges and oceans — general climate warming will also lead to meanders in the above - mentioned ITCZ.