Sentences with phrase «several hundreds of metres»

Not exact matches

In fact, as far back as the 1970s scientists found layers of salt several hundred metres thick on the seabed.

For this purpose, a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) is used, which scans its surroundings with a laser beam within a radius of several hundred metres.

«We made several cross-sections of hundreds of metres of basin sediments and we determined the exact positions of ash beds contained in these marine sediments,» explained Björn Baresel, first author of the study.

Volumes range from a few hundred cubic metres to more than a thousand cubic kilometres, and the larger ones can travel for hundreds of kilometres although none on that scale have occurred for several hundred thousand years.

In Washington DC, several hundred people — a mix of NASA employees, staffers from the US Congress and parents with children — gathered in the atrium of the Newseum to watch a live feed of the impact on a 10 - metre - wide screen.

«Our results suggest that separation distances of several hundred metres, proposed by some European countries, is unnecessarily large but separation by 40 metres is not sufficient,» says Tyson.

Greg Holland of the University of Manchester, UK, and colleagues have arrived at a different theory after collecting samples of the noble gas krypton from several hundred metres beneath New Mexico.

LEDs handle dipped - beam lighting while laser units and LEDs combined provide high - beam illumination, generating a spread of light that extends several hundred metres in front of the car.

Lying several hundred metres below the road, the tranquil water is a brilliant shade of turquoise, contrasting with the sandy inlets that surround it.

From here the walk has been extended past Gibson's Steps via an underpass which takes you to the other side of the road and the last several hundred metres to finish at the Twelve Apostles visitor centre where you'll find toilets and a cafe.

Sundowner Cruises offer several options and at the end of your jaunt will leave you at the Port of Airlie, just a few hundred metres from Walter's Lounge, the perfect choice for dinner.

Combat is initially confusing and more than a little overwhelming thanks to a near - total lack of tutorials, and the fact that the camera backs away several hundred metres in an attempt to keep entire armies of foes and comrades on - screen.

Year 2013: surface skin has wamed a tiny fraction of 1C (not shown for comparison simplicity) and ocean mixing will not permit it to balance within 0.003 C at the sub-skin (maybe also ocean happens to mix heat down a tad faster due to a natural variation), now will only let 1.441 mm to < several tens - to - hundreds of metres > depth warm by 0.69462 C instead of prior 0.697 C (ocean - air interface at 0.70000 C).

If the 1.441 mm depth had warmed by 0.700 C same as the ocean - air interface then oceans would gain no heat, but the massive colder oceans below will only let 1.441 mm to < several tens - to - hundreds of metres > depth warm by 0.697 C and only when the entire ocean has warmed by 0.700 C in a few thousand years will it let that 1.441 mm depth warm the final 0.003 C and stop heat gain with 4,100 ZettaJoules of heat having been added to the oceans, enough to melt 13,666,666 cubic kilometres of ice.

For example, the Marcellus Shale fracking is said to have used some 2.5 million cubic metres of water in a year in hundreds of wells over a large area encompassing several US states.

«Formal attribution studies now suggest that it is likely that anthropogenic forcing has contributed to the observed warming of the upper several hundred metres of the global ocean during the latter half of the 20th century -LCB- 5.2, 9.5 -RCB-»

The thick and slow - moving interior ice reservoir is generally fixed to the underlying bedrock while the ice streams glide over lubricated beds at velocities of up to several hundred metres per year.

The USA and Canada, the only other major gas - producing region in the world, have obtained most of their known recovery from several hundred 15 — 300 billion cubic metre fields.