Sentences with phrase «water dropping hundreds»

I hope someday you can drive the to the places here with water dropping hundreds of feet fill the views and stop at the many Hualalai roasters along the way to enjoy the numerous pleasures you'll find on the Hawaii Belt drive.

Not exact matches

and you can swim in river pools, in water which will be dropping hundreds of feet after it brushes past you.

With hundreds of millions of dollars spent on Onondaga County's water treatment plant over the past two decades, the amount of sewage spilling into the lake has dropped dramatically.

Sifting through more than 400 droppings with fine - meshed sieves, they discovered that two - thirds of the samples contained hundreds of water flea eggs, bryozoan statoblasts, and even fragile water bug eggs.

During ice ages, which are mainly driven by rhythmic variations in Earth's orbit and spin that alter sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere, growing ice caps and glaciers trap so much frozen water on land that sea levels can drop a hundred meters or more.

He thawed the frozen water, poured it into hundreds of individual tanks, and dropped in thousands of leopard - frog eggs collected en route.

At the ragged western edge of the tableland, it abruptly dropped hundreds of feet to the fjord's indigo water.

9 drops would mean that the tablespoon holds three hundred drops of water; is my math wrong?

During the 2011 to 2012 time span, 35 percent of Chicago's 681 schools failed food inspection at least once for reasons such as no hot water in bathroom sinks, food kept at unsafe temperatures, and more than two hundred rodent droppings found in food service areas.

On Saturday mornings, when the weekly commuters who usually rush in like blood have emptied out like a stomach and left only cigarette butts scattered like piñata droppings, I roam around thinking of the dead four hundred, passing the library and remembering it as a reservoir, not full of books but of water; I gather up anecdotes from when this neighborhood was something else.

Snow - capped mountains with dense forests clinging to their steeply sloping sides give rise to some of the world's most impressive waterfalls including Lady Bowen Falls and Stirling Falls the only two completely permanent waterfalls in Milford Sound but following heavy rain, which is a very common occurrence, literally hundreds of waterfalls appear sometimes dropping 1,000 metres into the waters below.

The sheer drop from the remaining bastion to the clear emerald waters below is about a hundred feet.

With more experienced divers, it is possible to experience Red Rock as a drop - off / drift dive where you enter the water at Red Rock, and exit a few hundred metres further South at Japanese Gardens.

While it may seem like one heck of a payday for a lot of us, in the long run its a small drop in a water bucket filled with hundred dollar bills.

As acids go, H2CO3 is relatively innocuous — we drink it all the time in Coke and other carbonated beverages — but in sufficient quantities it can change the water's pH. Already, humans have pumped enough carbon into the oceans — some hundred and twenty billion tons — to produce a.1 decline in surface pH. Since pH, like the Richter scale, is a logarithmic measure, a.1 drop represents a rise in acidity of about thirty per cent.

I can only list a few regular «goings on'that I KNOW affect sea level; I'm certain that there are others: Change in overall temperature of the oceans (a few millidegrees / mm), plate tectonics, slit from rivers, erosion of seashores, extraction of ground water which ultimately returns to the oceans, marine life and its products building up the ocean floors, melting land ice, undersea discharges of a variety of «stuff» from literally hundreds of thousands of sources, often at temperatures in the 1 - 2 thousand degree range, which we are only now beginning to notice, wind carrying dust from the land and dropping it on the ocean.