Sentences with phrase «square miles over»

Each aerial mission is expected to cover an area of 50 square miles over a 90 - minute flight.

In 1998, the middle portion, Larsen B, started shrinking, losing 1,000 square miles over four years.

This year we now are 1 million square miles over the average.

Malta may be a tiny nation of only 122 square miles over seven islands, but it's also one of the of the most densely populated countries in the world.

The fire area covered more than 100 square miles over eight counties.

Not exact matches

The field, covering nearly 75 square miles, was discovered in 1911 and has produced over 2 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE), making it one of the most productive fields in the United States.

Cadiz is a private corporation sitting on roughly 70 square miles of property in the Mojave Desert over a deep aquifer.

The uninhabited half - square - mile island, possessing no apparent natural resources, is a bizarre sliver of territory for two countries to fight over.

High - altitude winds can make it sprinkle over hundreds of square miles, though it's most intense near the blast site.

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.

One series of experiments run by the two - year - old Marine Warfighting Laboratory, in Quantico, had 18 squads of marines fanning out over 1,500 square miles of desert.

Frisco, Texas, is proposing turning its small city — a population of about 160,000 over 62 square miles — into a company town dominated by Amazon.

This Cedar Rapids suburb has a population of just over 3,100 and a total area of only 5.84 square miles.

Ours is over 1700 square miles.

«Over two square miles of London are owned by companies registered offshore.

When you first become a Christian, and you fly over the rain forest of your life, it is thousands of square miles of impassible and inhabitable jungle, full of twisted vines, rotting leaves, and deadly predators.

The Portuguese colonial empire was distributed over a much larger part of the globe but in square miles and population did not equal the Spanish possessions.

It is difficult to get excited about a 6 - 0 win over the European minnows San Marino, who have a population of just 31,000 and occupates just 23 square miles of territory inside Italy.

The boundaries spread over 720 square miles and include the mega-city of Los Angeles as well as all or parts of 31 smaller municipalities plus several unincorporated sections of Southern California.

Minutes away from Hamburg, you have Canada and Niagara Falls to the North; winery tours, Amish Country and the Chautauqua Institute to the South; ski resorts and amusement parks to the East and over 9,000 square miles of fishing, boating and water sports to the west.

At its peak, the Bethlehem Steel plant employed over 25,000 workers and had over 7 million square feet of buildings, as well as almost 30 miles of rail track.

However, since 1970, the Buffalo - Niagara region has lost over 1,250 working farms, and nearly 160 square miles of farmland.

The extinction at the end of the Permian is thought to have been caused by volcanic eruptions in Siberia over hundreds of thousands if not a million years that produced what are known today as the Siberian Traps: lava fields covering much of northern Russia and originally encompassing nearly 3 million square miles with an average thickness of about 1,000 feet.

Today, the site is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and includes the remains of temples and a vast network of canals, ornamental lakes, and dikes stretching over approximately 150 square miles.

A NASA study conducted in 2007 used aerial sensors and satellites to show that, at its peak, Angkor extended over more than 380 square miles and had more than one million inhabitants.

The remnants of former palm groves are visible, concentrated right next to the road, surrounded by the circles typical of aspersion irrigation zones: Pivots with ranges of approximately 650 feet provide water to grain plots over an area of approximately 15 square miles.

While the decline of green vegetation was small, the area affected was not: 2.1 million square miles (5.4 million square kilometers), equivalent to over half the area of the continental United States.

Using echosounders installed on the hull of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Nancy Foster, the science team mapped canyons and shelf regions at high resolution over more than 380 square miles (1,000 square kilometers) of seafloor from south of Cape Hatteras to Baltimore Canyon, which runs from offshore North Carolina to the eastern tip of Long Island.

And over the past 18 months, two of the peninsula's largest ice shelves, the Larsen B and the Wilkins, have lost nearly 1,100 square miles of their total area, a sheet of ice about the size of Rhode IslandCK.

Someday this material could be stretched over many thousands of square miles of countryside.

Port Phillip Bay sprawls over 750 square miles, providing feeding grounds for whales and sheltering coastlines for brine - scented beach towns.

Ramanathan and colleagues plan to demonstrate this on a small scale over the next few years in the Himalayas, over a 12 - square - mile area in the foothills.

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.

But over the past century, the rate of land loss in coastal Louisiana has averaged 15 to 20 square miles per year.

The purpose of the 269 circular and rectangular earthworks, scattered over a 15,000 - square - mile area, remains unknown, but Schaan suspects they were ceremonial platforms (pdf).

From elaborate treetop citadels, a colony of up to half a million individuals can deploy its forces over six square miles.

The sea spread over more than 26,000 square miles, and ships could travel 250 miles from the northern port of Aralsk, in Kazakhstan, to the southern harbor of Muynak in Uzbekistan.

«Now, I'm a chemist, not a modeler,» he cautions, but it's not hard to imagine a magma dike breaching the seafloor and laying out 1200 - degree lava over half a square mile.

(Population densities of hunter - gatherers are rarely over on person per ten square miles, while farmers average 100 times that.)

Starting next year a global project called Neptune, for North East Pacific Time - series Undersea Networked Experiments, will lay wire - and - fiber - optic cable over a 200,000 - square - mile region of the seismically active Juan de Fuca tectonic plate off the northwest coast of the United States.

Satellites from NASA and other agencies have been tracking sea ice changes since 1979, and the data show that Arctic sea ice has been shrinking at an average rate of about 20,500 square miles (53,100 square kilometers) per year over the 1979 - 2015 period.

The average size of the dead zone over the past five years has been 5,176 square miles, more than twice the 1,900 square mile goal set by the Gulf of Mexico / Mississippi River Watershed Nutrient Task Force in 2001 and reaffirmed in 2008.

Such extreme particles are among the rarest things known to physics; they come down over any given square mile only two or three times per century.

The tank is one of 1,600 spaced out at one - mile intervals over 1,100 square miles of land, an area bigger than Rhode Island.

This time, to reconstruct the cause of the breakup, NASA got to pick up the pieces spread over 2,000 square miles from Littlefield, Texas, to Fort Polk, Louisiana.

Over the years, excavation expanded beyond the original site, called Açutuba, toinclude other spots in a 20 - square - mile area on the peninsula that juts between the Amazon and Rio Negro rivers.

Using multibeam sonar, a recent expedition found that the foot of the slope north of Alaska lies much farther out than expected, potentially entitling the United States to new resource rights over hundreds of square miles of seabed.

Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.

That's slightly over 40 square miles of land.

It is approximately 100 square miles of protected rainforest in central Panama and home to well over 500 bird species.