Sentences with phrase «sheer volume of water»

The sheer volume of water flowing over the falls amounts to 220,000 litres per second — enough to fill one Olympic sized swimming pool in 11 seconds!

Even the most reluctant tyke will be amazed by the sheer volume of water that hurtles over the Huka Falls - and when the flow control gates open at Aratiatia the gorge is quickly flooded by the waters of the Waikato River.

The sheer volume of water flowing over the falls amounts to 220,000 litres per second - enough to fill one Olympic sized swimming pool in 11 seconds!

It wasn't so much the height as it was the sheer volume of water that would end up in my nose if I forgot to hold it!

Not exact matches

This is because the 9/11 memorial relies not on symbolism but on sheer magnitude for its effect — the size of the footprints, the volume of water pouring into them, and the number of names on the panels — as if magnitude alone could endow it with sublimity.

They are motivated by the humbling realization that our knowledge of undersea life as a whole is only slightly less sketchy than our knowledge of life under those Antarctic ice shelves: Even where the water is not covered by ice, its sheer volume — not to mention the difficulty of seeing and moving through it — means that it is nearly all aqua incognita.

MAVEN focuses on hydrogen and oxygen as ways to trace water and carbon dioxide, and neutral argon as a way to measure the sheer volume of atmosphere loss.

Beneath the water, the sheer volume of marine life on this dive site hits you like a ton of bricks as soon as you descend.