Sentences with phrase «sank by a meter»

More importantly, when the islands sank by a meter, the sea swallowed much of the former coastline.

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Some bodies were stripped of their valuables and left bobbing in shallow ponds; others sank to the bottom, protected from plundering by a meter or two of water.

The caldera, the cauldron - like crater at the top of a volcano, had sunk by up to around 20 meters since last week as magma channeled through underground passages moves away from the volcano, Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson, geophysics professor at the University of Iceland, told public service broadcaster RUV.

They found that the embankments that protect the land from the river and sea had also robbed it of fresh supplies of sediment: during the five decades of its existence, the polder had sunk by a full meter relative to the land outside the embankments because it was not being replenished.

The quake in 1762, estimated at magnitude 8.8, caused land around the southeastern city of Chittagong to sink by several meters; in the Sundarbans it seems to have caused at least a 20 - centimeter drop, says Hanebuth.

Johannes Roberts» 47 Meters Down follows Mandy Moore and Claire Holt's vacationing sisters Lisa and Kate as they embark on a shark - watching expedition aboard an exceedingly sketchy boat (captained by Matthew Modine's Taylor), with problems ensuing after their cage sinks to the bottom of the ocean and they're forced to fend for themselves.

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This wreck, a 30m long cargo vessel sitting upright in 28 meters of water, was sunk in early 2001 and has since been colonized by many corals, sponges and a huge variety of fish.

This hotel is a mere 150 meters from the beach and is built high off the ground, with private balconies, bathrooms (complemented by hand carved stone sinks), beds with pillow top mattresses and verandas for outdoor relaxation.

Kemp and colleagues used salt marshes in North Carolina, where the land has steadily sunk by about two meters in the past two millennia due to glacial isostatic adjustment.

I suspect the amount of additional 33psu surface waters entrained by the sinking brine is indicated by the nearly 35psu salinity of Arctic ocean water below about 300 meters depth; if the salt from each cubic meter of ice formed were added to approximately 15 cubic meters of water at 33psu, it would raise the salinity to near 35psu.

While it may be critical to sequester ocean carbon at depths greater than 1000 meters, this might prove extremely difficult given very high rates of respiration of particulate matter and remineralization by bacteria, resulting in only 1 - 10 % of sinking particulates reaching depths below 1000 meters.

I'll take you at your word that the lessons sank in, but given that, why do you persist in discussing current rates of SLR as being somehow useful in evaluating the predictions of ~ one meter of SLR by ~ 2100?

Once the CO2 concentration of the upper ocean is depleted by growth and sinking of phytoplankton, the timescale for gas exchange with the atmosphere is about a year for a one - hundred meter ocean mixed layer, typical of the tropics.

The glacier's lower portion, the snout, is debris - covered and appears to be climate resistant with zero retreat, but the clean white top has a melt rate of up to 4.5 meters, while the surface sinks by more than 0.5 meters every year.

It's composed by a metal structure that keeps it afloat, a flat and cylindrical net that sink so that air doesn't go through them, and a flow meter to measure the cubic meters that go through it.

When both went down, ice sheets grew and sea levels sank, lower than today's by more than 100 meters.

The135 meter - squared family home is sunk into the garden of an existing house in Clapham Old Town, overlooked by 23 neighboring properties.