Sentences with phrase «several kilometers»

The police had blocked off several kilometers of the highway shoulder and most of the right lane with bright orange construction cones.

A study by a research team in 2011 came to support this notion, by providing evidence for the existence of lakes several kilometers below the moon's icy surface.

To get a better look at the molecular scale we need a «camera» that's several kilometers long, and one such facility is firing up this month.

In previous studies, the authors had already demonstrated that rivers transport DNA for several kilometers.

Along fast - flowing outlet glaciers, ice speeds can reach hundreds of meters or even several kilometers per year.

Such flows can travel several kilometers even on very moderate slopes.

He points off into the jungle to where he says he knows of a cocaine factory several kilometers off the trail.

The beach stretches to Broken Head and is dog friendly for several kilometers.

In the new work, Green and his team also investigated the Punchbowl Fault, an ancestral branch of the San Andreas Fault that has been exhumed by erosion from several kilometers depth, and found nanometric materials within the fault — as predicted by their model.

One of the stories collected by a popular story - teller in India goes something like this: 1 Once a parachutist found himself caught up in a storm, and he was swept off several kilometers away from his original destination.

And this polluted air and water vapor certainly will be carried to the near shore and left as an oily residue on everything from trees to electrical transformers, just as the salt from seawater often coats several kilometers inland in the wake of a hurricane.

The surface trace is offset by several kilometers from the deep portion of the fault 3 - 5 km below ground (blue line).

The water escaping from the crystallizing magma at several kilometers below surface carries most of the copper initially dissolved in the magma.

However, the ambitious project by the federal government to build a smart city, on a 1,260 hectares piece of virgin land located several kilometers Southeast of Nigeria's capital, Abuja is embroiled in several controversies, all bordering on alleged fraud.

Magma, as liquid, preferentially forms in high temperature, low pressure environments within several kilometers of the Earth's surface.

Long piles of rock, stretching several kilometers, can be seen on the sides of many martian hills and mountains.

The Wallanlagen is a lovely green park that stretches over several kilometers and is located between the city center and the main train station.

Rather it shows where large plumes of smoke were lofted several kilometers up into the atmosphere.

And at their meeting in February, they also considered geologic evidence that a big tsunami in 869 C.E. had swept several kilometers inland across the same coastal plain inundated in March.

For instance, Ekström says, in several cases major landslides have fallen upon glaciers and then scooted nearly friction - free across several kilometers of ice — which tends to muffle seismic vibrations until the speeding material slams into the opposite side of the valley.

Different species also have distinct hearing abilities attuned to various frequencies of sound that can span long distances, often several kilometers or more.

McP arrived in Kuwait a couple of weeks after I did, and his unit camped several kilometers away from ours.

The unavailability of a health facility is another challenge in the community, as residents walk several kilometers to access healthcare.

PIH recently managed a $ 2500 project to rebuild a concrete water station for one village and connect it, through several kilometers of pipes, to a natural spring and chlorination facility.

Efforts to explore the deepest recesses of Earth's oceans were dealt a heavy blow last weekend when one of history's most accomplished deep - sea explorers imploded several kilometers beneath the Pacific and resurfaced in pieces.

One particularly detrimental impact of the small dams observed in this study is that they often divert the flow of the river to hydropower stations, leaving several kilometers of river bed dewatered, Kibler explained.

From the high levels of CO2 in the air surrounding the dead trees, geologists concluded in 1995 that a swarm of earthquakes 6 years earlier had created fissures through which about 500 metric tons of the gas a day was seeping to the surface from a reservoir of CO2 several kilometers below.

The new images, at resolutions of about 80 meters per pixel, show a striking shoreline, where smooth plains of nitrogen ice from Pluto's «heart» rub up against water ice mountains several kilometers high.

Models by Christopher F. Chyba, then at the NASA Ames Research Center, and his colleagues proposed in 1993 that the asteroid was a few tens of meters in diameter and that it exploded several kilometers above the ground.

They grow to gigantic proportions, lifting tons of dust several kilometers high into the orange skies, where the particles hang as haze before drifting back down to the surface.

Twenty - four hours a day, seven days a week, they move through the water in search of food such as shrimp and fish larvae, on journeys that can cover several kilometers a day.

Scientists working off the California coast use chemical - sniffing probes, robotically driven subs, and seafloor - tethered temperature sensors to watch flows of lava pave over a once - thriving ecosystem at hydrothermal vents several kilometers below the ocean's surface.

In November, the spacecraft will swoop low over the surface at an altitude of just several kilometers and drop the Philae lander, which will sample the comet — if the lander's two harpoons can keep it stuck to the surface.

But to scientists» surprise, plumes of oil extending several kilometers were floating roughly 1,000 meters beneath the surface, where the toxic compounds are literally washing off the oil and contaminating the water.

CRYSTAL SWIRL Swirling winds in the Andes Mountains can carry gypsum crystals several kilometers before dumping them in large piles.

Air travel to a standstill The April 2010 eruption of the volcano Eyjafjallajökull hurled clouds of ash several kilometers into the atmosphere, bringing air travel to a standstill across Europe and, in a less noticeable effect, seeding the seas south of Iceland with ash.

They are well - known for their loud howling, which can sometimes be heard several kilometers (miles) away.

-LSB-...] 17 - year - old daughter, who had been raped at the Sarkuusta Camp, died as they were trying to take her to a hospital several kilometers away.

Carabassi Beach, running several kilometers from Arenales, is one of the loveliest and safest beaches on the whole of this coastline and is at the bottom of the hill just 10 minutes walking.

If you are frugal or intrepid and take the slow ferry from Bali, it's best to arrange transport in advance from the ferry dock to Senggigi, since the dock on the Lombok side is in a remote spot several kilometers south of Mataram.