Sentences with phrase «only about a meter»

So it looks as if the lake's true deposits are only about a meter thick, a feature that is compatible with a hypothesis that posits a young age for the lake.

Not exact matches

For $ 1 million, you can only buy 16 square meters there, about 172 square feet — the size of a respectable walk - in closet.

The gold - bearing reef that is eventually going to be mined when the tunnel reaches it has a thickness of only about one meter, or 3.3 feet — but it will lengthen the mine's life until around 2030.

All verses like this and Matthew 5:28 (where Jesus talks about adultery in a similarly harsh manner, are meant to do is point us straight to verses of Paul's such as Romans 3:23 and Ephesians 2:8 - 9: it's the evidence Jesus provides that, no matter what, even if we never murder a single person or in any way commit adultery, we're nothing without Him... and, oh, yeah, it's the meter that shows us who we are and why we need Him, and only Him (John 14:6), to get to heaven.

Torrence caught Privalova with only 20 meters to go and won by about half a meter, giving the U.S. a time of 42.11 to the Unified Team's 42.16.

I just returned from vacation in a small town where the forest, although not literally DIRECTLY behind the hospital, does start only about 200 meters away.

The scientists report that at crash velocities of about 30 meters per second, atoms within each particle shift only near the initial point of contact.

Yet the edge of the plasma, located about 2 meters away, will be 1,000 times cooler, with most of the temperature dropping over a radial slope whose width is only a few percent of the total plasma size.

However, a full - grown Europasaurus only measured six to eight meters — about one - fourth the length of its nearest relative, Camarasaurus.

Over a span of hundreds of thousands of kilometers, their vertical thickness typically varies by only about 10 meters.

The cylindrical holes stretched down about 5 meters into the earth, but were also skinny, only 32 centimeters wide.

There's a place called the Birdwood Banks that's just off near Isla de los Estados — between there and the Falklands — and its highest point right now is only about 50 meters [165 feet] down.

It is estimated by astronomers that only about 27 percent of the NEAs that are 460 feet (140 meters) and larger have been found to date.

«There are other elements involved, but if size were the only factor, we'd be looking for an asteroid smaller than about 40 feet (12 meters) across,» said Paul Chodas, a senior scientist in the Near - Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «There are hundreds of millions of objects out there in this size range, but they are small and don't reflect a lot of sunlight, so they can be hard to spot.

Cosmic rays can only penetrate about two to three meters below the surface, so the abundance of cosmic - ray - debris isotopes in rock indicates how long that rock has been on the surface.

But one of the disadvantages is that the containment structure is a lightbulb - shaped steel shell that's only about 30 or 40 feet [nine to 12 meters] across — thick steel, but relatively small compared to large, dry containments like TMI.

The human genome contains around three meters of DNA, of which only about two per cent contains genes that code for proteins.

Over an area of about a quarter acre, we needed to remove not only the 19th - century backfill but also the rubble from cave collapses that had filled several deep natural cavities to a depth of more than four meters.

This photo shows the Yarlung Tsangpo Valley close to the Tsangpo Gorge, where it is rather narrow and underlain by only about 250 meters of sediments.

In August 2009, the orbiting Cassini spacecraft caught sight of 20 - meter - high corrugations rippling across 1500 kilometers of Saturn's inner C ring (regular, narrow bright bands, above), which is only about 10 meters thick.

The bird is only found at elevations between about 1200 and 1800 meters.

The biggest pyramids they discovered are about 22 feet (7 meters) wide at their base with the smallest example, likely constructed for the burial of a child, being only 30 inches (750 millimeters) long.

The DNA in our cells is folded into millions of small packets, like beads on a string, allowing our two - meter linear DNA genomes to fit into a nucleus of only about 0.01 mm in diameter.

«Today, we can only find fossil remains of this tortoise, which reached a length of about half a meter,» says Professor Uwe Fritz, director of the Senckenberg Natural History Collections in Dresden, and he continues, «For the first time, we examined the Bahama Tortoise's genetic material and were able to determine that these animals, who became extinct approximately 850 years ago, were closely related to Galapagos Tortoises and the Chaco Tortoise from South America.»

Only about 10 meters in diameter, the object exhibited an anomalous rate of rotation, fluctuations in brightness and speed for its size, suggesting to Scotti that it was something other than your «run - of - the - mill» main belt asteroid.

Qiao, however, has found that he only needs to apply pressure to create the brick, roughly the equivalent of a 10 - pound (4.5 - kilogram) hammer dropping about 3 feet (1 meter).

At one point in the Eemian, it was only about 1 degree C warmer than today (a level we are approaching rapidly)-- and yet sea levels were tens of meters higher than now.

In fact, if you divided marathon into 1 % segments, the length of the race that's anaerobic is only about 400 meters.

To paint the picture, think of it like this: If you want to perform a 100 - meter sprint at an all - out effort, you have the immediate energy stores to do so through your anaerobic pathway, but you can only maintain this all - out effort for about 10 to 15 seconds before you have to stop and catch your breath.

As calibrated from the factory the TDS meters will normally read only about one half the PPM of ionic silver that the PWT meter will read.

We took the pictures near the St. Patrick's Cathedral, which was only a few meters away from our FeWo apartment.I received a lot of questions regarding my beloved apartment and I'm going to write a post about it within the next days!

Nudity is strictly limited to Metcalf's bare ass (and, if you're watching closely, a glimpse of underwater full - frontal), and the film is similarly circumspect about gore, with only the previously - described coitus interruptus and another moment when somebody gets his ankles slashed really registering on the cringe - o - meter.

about a VW Passat 2012 — The trunk light works only intermitantly — Using an OHM meter, bulb is OK, and everything checks out until I check across that little resister / capasitor?

The battery - life meter dipped more quickly than we expected, predicting a total range of only about 100 kilometers (60 - ish miles) by the end, versus the promised 150 kilometers, but that reflects several short and aggressive journalist - helmed test drives in cold weather, the last factor being particularly important, since this car lacks the sort of liquid heating elements found in the Volt.

Still, that's a good value, after all, we're talking about a two - tonne five - meter sedan with performance that would have recently been available only in the super sports car segment.

On a number of occasions, we found ourselves briefly confused about which turning to take, only to be reassured by the distance meter.

The e-papers were dropped from a height of about 1.5 meters, and the displays not only survived each time but also remained very devoid of any scratches.

I picked up about 3 meters in a roll for only a couple of dollars at a $ 2 shop.

With a great entry point in only about 1.5 meters of water onto white sand it gives a great opportunity for Discover Scuba or Open Water Students to get accustomed to the surroundings.

Many little rivers run for about 900 meters underneath the lava field Hallmundarhraun and only become visible when they drop into the Hvita river.

Now, we are not talking about mountains, the chocolate hills are only hills — the highest barely reaching 120 meters.

Cyclops, Western Australia, for example is one of the biggest and thickest reef breaks in the world, with waves measuring up to 10 metres high, but the reef below is only about 2 meters (6.6 feet) below the surface of the water.

Eager to take off, the Golden Eagle flaps her imposing wings of about two meter wingspan as she spots another bird which appears only as a tiny speck in the sky to the humans limited - sight.

Location: about 600 meters easterly of Bulabog Beach Access: only a few minutes from Bulabog Beach by boat Experience: all divers Depth: 5 - 20 meters Visibility: up to 25 meters Current: usually low Best months: June - October

The steps are 1.3 ish meters long, and only about 2 inch deep, so enough space to get a pram down.

We all stopped swimming and dropped to the bottom, only about 7 meters down.

Probably one of the most famous dive spot in the Ribbons Reefs, the Pixie Pinnacle is only about 15 meters in diameter but the area is toured by liveaboards because of its spectacular marine life, making the Pixie Pinnacle ideal and best for both day and night diving.

Surin Park has a very inspired name since it is only 400 meters away from the beautiful Surin and Bangtao beaches.Surin Plaza is also close by; it takes you about 10 minutes to reach it by foot while Patong Beach is just a 15 minute drive away from the hotel.Both Phuket Town and Phuket International Airport are at a 20 minute drive away.There are a total of 22 rooms at Surin Park and each room has a big terrace with incredible mountain and sea views.There is also cable TV, air conditioning, en suite bathrooms, a fully equipped kitchen and a comfy lounge with stylish sofas.There is also a safe in every room.

This massive limestone pinnacle which only protrudes about three meters above the surface is huge and impressive under the water.

The waves only ride for a short distance, about 50 meters at most.