Sentences with phrase «square miles across»

Since 1999, ExxonMobil has produced more than 1 million barrels of oil and 656 million metric cubic feet of natural gas from Colorado deposits, according to the complaint, and ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO Energy currently produces 130 million cubic feet of natural gas per day from more than 864 square miles across three Colorado counties.

Covering nearly 800 square miles across five counties (Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire), this region of «wolds», or rolling hills, is the biggest of the 38 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in England and Wales.

An oasis on the Silk Road trading route, the sea once covered more than 26,000 square miles across the heart of Central Asia, including parts of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

It will contain a $ 20 million annual increase in funding for security in major parks across the five boroughs and the expansion of a crime - fighting tool known as ShotSpotter, which uses sensors to detect gunfire, to cover 60 square miles across the city.

Southeast Farallon was less than one square mile across.

Not exact matches

Justin Sonnekalb, a technical designer at Irrational Games who is working on this project, says the game play experience will allow users to walk or drive the Mars Rover prototype across several square miles of actual Martian terrain while pursuing research - oriented mission goals.

A lawsuit filed Monday claims the Trump administration ignored policies meant to protect the greater sage grouse when the government sold oil and gas leases across 475 square miles (1,230 square kilometers) in Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada.

The lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court seeks to reverse lease sales across 475 square miles (1,230 square kilometers) in Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada.

The Richmond District Office, one of 72 such offices, is responsible for administering the array of SBA programs across Virginia, save the area closest to D.C. — 92 counties and 36 cities over 38,630 square miles.

Why it's hot: One square mile of boutiques and condos, Hoboken is just across the Hudson River from New York City and boasts a 2,221 member - strong N.J. Tech Meetup that gets together monthly.

Since The Bahamas is comprised of 700 individual islands and cays with a total land area of about 5,400 square miles scattered across 100,000 square miles of ocean, it is natural that fish and seafood are very important in the cuisine.

Known as the Forbidden Island, Niihau provides its sheep herds with an extremely diverse range across the 72 - square mile island.

That was especially true in Canada but even more so in Saskatchewan, a province of 1.1 million people spread across some 251,700 square miles.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District is responsible for the planning, construction, and operation of water projects to maintain navigation across the 38,000 square mile area that includes Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.

The plan that the board approved today, and that Albany will now spend months deliberating on, would fund a new fare payment system to replace the already - obsolete MetroCard; put $ 2.9 billion toward finally finishing the East Side Access project that will allow Long Island Rail Road passengers to disembark in Grand Central; allocate $ 1.5 billion to begin work on the second phase of the Second Avenue Subway, extending it from 96th to 125th streets; and fund countless other nitty - gritty, state - of - good - repair needs across the system's 5,000 - square - mile service area.

The first - term Republican faces reelection this fall and has been travelling across the more than 16,000 - square mile district during the summer break.

Syracuse is currently spread across about 25 square miles of land.

Between A.D. 800 and 1500, Angkor's complex canals, roads, irrigated fields, and dense settlements sprawled across more than 1,160 square miles, almost the size of Rhode Island — and far beyond the area protected within the UNESCO World Heritage Site's zone today.

The study sites were spread out across 5,000 square miles of pinyon - juniper woodlands in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, to capture the wide range of elevation and soil gradients these trees take root in.

One of the two studies looked at all major forest and soil types across the entire 1,700 square mile area of the Bavarian Alps between 1986 and 2011.

An accelerating rate of decline The nation's largest aquifer is the Ogallala, underlying more than 170,000 square miles of the High Plains region and stretching across eight states, from Nebraska to Texas.

During the week - plus celebration of the night sky, the preserve — the world's second largest at 4,335 square miles — attracts hundreds of visitors from across the continent to celebrate all things astronomical.

Across the way, a canopy of mist hovers over one of the world's most ancient rainforests, an expanse of some 465 square miles that is more than 100 million years old.

Twice per day it lurches into motion, slipping 18 inches forward across its entire 5,000 - square - mile expanse.

This barren place, a site called Gonur, was once the heart of a vast archipelago of settlements that stretched across 1,000 square miles of Central Asian plains.

The tsunami crashed down — in seemingly slow motion, due to the low gravity — and then rushed across hundreds of thousands of square miles of plains and up into highlands.

The ZooKeys article describes the first study of the behavior, diet, and conservation status of this flying fox, finding that the Mortlock Islands support a small population of 900 to 1200 bats scattered across a land surface of only 12 km2 (4.6 square miles).

Published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the study includes maps showing where lemurs are likely to seek refuge as temperatures rise and rainfall patterns change across the 225,000 - square - mile island over the next 65 years.

The team found that the five - week eruption supplied enough dissolved iron to increase the number of phytoplankton cells within a region of the North Atlantic stretching across 570,000 square kilometers — or 220,000 square miles, about the size of France.

That project, off the coast of Yorkshire, will total 400 turbines across 430 square miles.

One under Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean is thought to have triggered massive volcanism, spewing lava across 580,000 square miles (1.5 million square km) at the Deccan Plateau region of what is now India about 65 million years ago, coinciding with the end of the Age of Dinosaurs.

The loss of the already isolated Mono Basin population would create a gap in the range of the species as a whole, covering 14 counties across two states and spanning thousands of square miles.

By the time of European settlement, the Mississippi River Delta plain stretched across a remarkable 7,000 square miles, making it one of the largest river deltas in the world.

With land that covers 3.8 million square miles, it can be a challenge to pinpoint the best US date spots across the country, but we have done our best to give you a little taste of everything in our suggestions below.

This location attracts a fun, professional crowd of people from across London, not just those working in the square mile.

The district spreads across 710 square miles, half the size of Delaware, and serves more than 688,000 students.

If you fly over the prairies that stretch across the middle of the United States, you see below the farms and municipalities neatly laid out in townships composed of 36 sections, each a mile square.

The program operates across 430 square miles in Pennsylvania's Carbon and Schuylkill counties and draws from a population largely of low - income students — all of them referred for academic reasons, many of them chronically absent.

The California legislature, with the enthusiastic support of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, passed a bill last summer that seemed to grant the dynamic mayor significant new powers over the sprawling Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation's second - largest, with 873 schools spread across 700 square miles and 27 cities.

She felt daunted, however, by the challenge of providing high - quality professional development to large numbers of educators spread across the farthest reaches of the 1,946 square - mile county.

What feedback do you have for Educate78 about how to better move forward the cause of increasing access to quality school seats across Oakland's 78 square miles?

And we re-elected the school board leaders that have been working towards a shared vision of quality education across Oakland's 78 square miles.

It includes 26 schools across 726 square miles.

Christy Cate, Digital Innovation Consultant, Region 14 Education Service Center, Abilene: To support learning across 12,000 square miles, Christy Cate created COMPILE (Collaborative On Mentoring & Planning Innovative Learning Environments) to bring together the resourcefulness of exceptional teachers in 42 small, rural school districts and support a culture shift to 21st century learning.

Boulder Valley has implemented a teacher evaluation tool called MyPassport which directly links evaluation outcomes with «specific professional learning opportunities across the sprawling 500 - square - mile district.»

Although Boston Harbor stretched across seventy - five square miles, its channels had been so narrowed for purposes of defense that two large ships could not safely pass each other without the harbor pilot's assistance.

Inside the chamber of the Constituent Assembly on the night of 14 August 1947, two thousand princes and politicians from across the one and a quarter million square miles that remained of India sat together on parliamentary benches.

Considering that VZ's wireless network stretches across the country, with its LTE network covering more than 2.4 million square miles, and the fact that the company ranks No. 1 in speed, data, and reliability tests, the chance of a newcomer to the wireless arena taking away market share is virtually nonexistent.

Flooding across 500 square miles destroyed homes and businesses.

In 2016, Coastal Humane welcomed Edgecomb's Lincoln County Animal Shelter into the organization, and the two shelters care for 3,500 + animals each year in their facilities, serving 40 towns along Maine's mid-coast across 1,000 square miles.