Sentences with phrase «valley below sea»

The rocky ground beneath the ice in the Wilkes Basin forms a huge valley below sea - level which slopes downwards as it heads inland.

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Death Valley National Park Explore 3 million acres of wilderness, including the Badwater Basin salt flats, the lowest elevation in North America at 282 feet below sea level.

Irwin points to some deltas and valley networks that lie well below the team's favored sea level, a physical impossibility if an ocean that deep existed at the time they formed.

About 100 of the valleys sit far below sea level and are attached to glaciers on Greenland's periphery that already are shedding ice, like Jakobshavn Isbræ glacier, said Morlighem.

Three hundred feet below the ash gray ramparts of a crumbling fortress, two rivers merge in a verdant valley and sweep eastward to the Caspian Sea.

Tourists walk across the Badwater Basin which sits 282 feet below sea level, in Death Valley, Calif., on June 30.

Taking Highway 270 down the coast gives you an unparalleled view of the blue Pacific, suddenly taking your breath away as the entire Waimea Valley comes into sight below, from dormant Mauna Kea to the vast black nothingness of lava rolling for miles right into the sea, frozen in place from Hualalai's last big blow in 1801.

With amazing views of the lush, tree - covered hillside, the olive groves and valley below, and the bright turquoise Sea in the distance, Rana's atmosphere is immediately relaxing.

Mountain peaks with sculptural, hanging valleys send waterfalls cascading over sheer granite cliffs to the sea below.

Luxury 5 star Cornish 18th century cottages, near the sea, poised at the head of the Looe Valley enjoying spectacular views to the river below.

A study of Greenland topography has found widespread, deeply incised glacial valleys with elevations well below sea level extending much farther inland than previously thought (Morlighem et al. 2014).

The six constituent floristic regions — Northwestern California, Central Western California, Southwestern California, the Great Central Valley, the Cascade Ranges, and the Sierra Nevada — encompass elevations from 200 m below sea level to about 4,000 m.

While it's still a bit early to tell how low overnight minima may go late this week, it's entirely possible that some colder valley locations near sea level will fall below 20 degrees.

The hidden valley below Ferrigno Ice Stream in West Antarctica is contributing to the area's dramatic ice loss and could provide more clues to the effect global warming has on sea level rises.

They used airborne radar soundings and satellite data to show that beneath the glacial ice were valleys so deeply incised that some of them were hundreds of metres below sea level, at distances tens of kilometres from the sea.

The valley is likely a sign of something researchers have long suspected: Ocean water can intrude far inland and remain unseen because the bottom of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet lies below sea level.

Death Valley in the US is about 80 or so metres below sea level.