Sentences with phrase «which lies»

Balloon flights from McMurdo Station, which lies at 78 degrees South, revealed severe ozone depletion in October 1991 at altitudes between 12 and 20 kilometres, with a 93 per cent loss of ozone between 17 and 18 kilometres (Geophysical Research Letters, vol 19, p 1105).

The quasar, which lies far beyond the galaxy, shows absorption lines in its spectrum that may be caused by gases of these galaxies absorbing energy.

Chemists in California have identified and synthesised a complex sugar molecule which lies on the surface of white blood cells, and through which the cells «recognise» those blood vessels that lie near injured tissue.

He pointed to an ice core taken from East Antarctica's Lake Vostok, which lies underneath the ice sheet.

The Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), which lies on the Rue d'Ulm in the Cinquième Arrondissement of Paris, ranks at the top among the prestigious French Grandes Ecoles.

Khichan, which lies in Rajasthan 100 kilometres from the Pakistani border, only became a major attraction for the cranes in the 1980s when local Jain priests began leaving them grain as they rested after gruelling annual migrations to India from Eurasia.

The 95,000 - square - mile slab, which lies under sizable portions of West Virginia, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, could contain up to 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas — enough to meet the nation's natural gas needs for at least two years.

Data from observations in Japan itself show that the greatest loss of ozone — 4.5 per cent over the past 10 years — occurred over the city of Sapporo, which lies on the same latitude as Marseilles.

Shenhua monitors its storage site here, which lies below a field covered by blooming yellow flowers, with instruments in an attempt to trace any changes caused by stored CO2.

They studied the object, which lies in the Circinus spiral galaxy 13 million light - years away, not only with NuSTAR but also with the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton satellite.

Between 1939 and 1999 Turkey's major earthquakes were marching westward along the north Anatolian fault, prompting fears that Istanbul — which lies near the fault — would eventually shake.

With funding from the salvage company RMS Titanic, Inc., the team mapped the area of the wreck, which lies four kilometers deep, in unprecedented detail using sonar.

Then, in 2005, other co-authors collected some whale bone and teeth on Palmyra Atoll, which lies southeast of the Hawaiian Islands and 2600 kilometers northeast of the Gilbert Islands.

The coordinated assembly and disassembly of actin in the cell cortex, which lies just beneath the plasma membrane, generates cortical actin waves that are crucial for important cell functions including migration and cell polarity.

The northern lights shimmer above Summit Station, which lies near the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet, 250 miles from its nearest neighbor.

Two years ago, astronomers found another lone infant star, HD 98800, which lies about 100 light years from the Sun (New Scientist, Science, 13 November 1993).

Gliese 667Cc This exoplanet, which lies just 22 light - years from Earth, is at least 4.5 times as massive as Earth, and researchers aren't sure whether or not it's rocky.

Roosevelt, which lies in the heart of the Bakken shale formation, is surrounded by oil and gas development.

Our solar system's asteroid belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter, may contain a few hundred thousand objects.

Astronomers have detected water vapour in the atmosphere of 51 Pegasi b — which lies just 50 light years away

Farther out, a similar blast would have tipped over Uranus, which lies on its side while orbiting the sun.

One of Cahokia's chiefs appears to be buried in Mound 72, which lies a half mile south of Monks Mound.

That enabled the astronomers to measure how fast stars orbit the black hole, which lies some 50 million light - years away, in the direction of the constellation Virgo.

Both Hawking radiation and the Unruh effect are intriguing to physicists as these phenomena connect quantum mechanics and gravity, between which lies a poorly understood netherworld of physics.

Dry, rocky Vesta, which lies about 38 million miles closer to the sun than Ceres, can be considered the smallest member of the terrestrial planets — the family that includes Earth, Venus, Mars, and Mercury.

The Kok - Aral Dam, the project's centerpiece, traps the increased flow from the Syr Darya into the northern Aral Sea, preventing it from draining away into the southern Aral Sea, most of which lies in neighboring Uzbekistan.

It is, for comparison, far more isolated than Britain, which lies only 22 miles from the French coast.

Material in the nebula, which lies about 700 light - years from Earth, was shed from a sun - type star (blue dot denoted with arrow) during the final stages of its life.

It is the central theme of The Death of Economics that the simple model of perfect competition which lies at the heart of much standard economic teaching is seriously flawed, and that policies based on it will be erroneous.

Butler argues that the dust covering the larger Stealth region was blown from volcanoes in a region called the Tharsis Ridge, which lies at the eastern edge of the feature.

Using data gathered by an infrared camera during a survey of such stars, astronomers have found that the brightness of a brown dwarf — dubbed 2MASS 2139, which lies about 47 light - years from Earth — varied as much as 30 % in less than 8 hours.

That's the conclusion from an analysis of the fragmentary remains of an ancient leg bone unearthed on Canada's Ellesmere Island, which lies just west of northern Greenland.

The whole structure is supported by adhesive tape, which lies beneath the bottom electrode, or gate (see Figure).

Today, Ellesmere, which lies next to Greenland on the eastern edge of Canada's Arctic Archipelago, supports only ankle - high tufts of cotton grass and mossy ground cover; the nearest tree is almost 1,200 miles south.

However, here excitation has been observed even in an intensity regime which lies above the threshold for expected complete ionization.

This level, which lies far higher than anything envisaged in Gödel's L, is inhabited by gigantic entities known as Woodin cardinals.

His discovery gives rise to the «north pole of balance,» which lies at the center of this circle.

In addition to the images of the «city goddess» Tyche, the depictions of Augustus and Dea Roma deserve special attention, since they point to the important role of the Roman emperor and the personified goddess of the Roman state for the town of Doliche, which lies on the eastern border of the Roman Empire.

At German universities, for example, the first degree earned by undergraduates remains the Diplom, which lies somewhere between a U.S. bachelor's and master's degree.

The excavations on the island of Sai, which lies in what is now the Sudanese section of the Nile, not only provide insights into the relationship between the official representatives of the occupying power and the local Nubian population, they also demonstrate that the island was inhabited for longer than hitherto assumed.

Government archaeologists continue to explore the unique site, which lies in 1,500 feet of water.

A clue came in June 2009, when NASA's STEREO - A spacecraft watched the asteroid double in brightness at its closest point to the sun, which lies just 14 per cent of Earth's distance from the star.

The key, he says, is the risk - benefit balance, which lies «firmly in favour of using the vaccine».

The muscle was her own dorsal interosseus muscle, which lies between the index finger and the thumb.

A new study sheds light on the chemical make - up of the planet, which lies around 4.5 billion kilometres from the sun.

The blowhole, which lies at the front of the head slightly to the left of center, connects to a widened pocket at the front of the spermaceti organ.

The average scores generally fell between neutral, which lies at the center of the plots, and strongly agree at the outside edges.

The increase lasted less than two days, and it doesn't seem to have bothered the ozone layer, which lies 40 miles below.

NASA researchers have found that several volcanic deposits on Mercury's surface require mantle melting to have started close to the planet's core - mantle boundary, which lies only 400 km below the planets surface and making it unique in the solar system.

The goliath birdeater, Marshall found, uses its hairs to create a special silken mat on which it lies upside down when molting.