• The depressions are roughly circular, with the largest about 60cm in diameter. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • Most are smaller, typically between 10 and 20cm in diameter and were probably formed by dinosaurs of between two and six metres in length and weighing several tonnes. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • The resulting basin-shaped depression is roughly circular and is usually several kilometres or more in diameter (Australian Government) . (un-spider.org)
  • The landscape image in the overview map reveals that Ismeniae Fossae could consist entirely of the eroded remnants of a filled impact basin up to 470 kilometres in diameter. (fu-berlin.de)
  • With a diameter of 31 kilometres and a depth of more than 300 metres, it resembles impact craters on Earth or the solid surface of other celestial bodies. (dlr.de)
  • The volcano's base is 40 kilometres in diameter, yet it is only 613 meters high, sloping up to the 1,700 x 600 meter caldera. (kibrantours.com)
  • Sand is transported short distances as individual grains or by saltation (a form of movement in short leaps) to form distinct constructional bedforms at various scales: aeolian ripple ridges (a few centimetres in width), meso-dune forms (a few metres in diameter), dunes (several tens to a hundred metres in size), and, finally, ergs (several square kilometres or more). (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Greeley Impact Crater is located in Noachis Terra , an area of the southern highlands between the Argyre and Hellas Planitia impact basins and, with a diameter of 427 kilometres, is one of the largest impact craters on Mars. (fu-berlin.de)
  • The topographic maps also reveal the existence of a global-scale deeply eroded ridge-and-trough system more than 3,000 kilometres (or 2,000 miles) long, trending from north-to-south near the western edge of Sputnik Planitia. (spaceanswers.com)
  • Imagine running almost 2,000 kilometres - mostly through gruelling desert terrain - all while your toenails keep falling off: 10 of them, to be precise. (saxton.com.au)
  • Some eskers deposited by the great ice sheets of the Pleistocene can be traced for hundreds of kilometres, even though most esker segments are only a few hundred metres to kilometres long and a few to tens of metres high. (britannica.com)
  • In the largest of the cave's chambers, which is 15 metres high, there are numerous wallows or depressions in the clay on the ground, where bears lay asleep during their hibernation. (theguardian.com)
  • Penitentes" which are formed by erosion, are bowl-shaped depressions with spires around the edge, and are several metres high. (phys.org)
  • after the asteroid impact, the ejecta forming the crater rim, which may be several kilometres high, are unstable and sink along lines of weakness within the crater that are parallel to and concentric with the crater wall. (fu-berlin.de)
  • This ancient crater, which has already been heavily eroded and filled with sediment, is difficult to make out against the Martian landscape due to its relatively shallow depth of only 1.5 kilometres - indeed, the crater rim has disappeared altogether in places. (fu-berlin.de)
  • These lands are two or three kilometres inland from the coast. (pormpuraawartculture.com)
  • [3] The Olmec heartland lies on the Gulf Coast of Mexico within the states of Veracruz and Tabasco , an area measuring approximately 275 kilometres (171 mi) east to west and extending about 100 kilometres (62 mi) inland from the coast. (wikipedia.org)
  • Whereas glaciofluvial deposits are formed by meltwater streams , glaciolacustrine sediments accumulate at the margins and bottoms of glacial lakes and ponds. (britannica.com)
  • If the ice margin stabilizes at a recessional position during glacial retreat, another valley train or sandur may be formed inside of the original one. (britannica.com)
  • Kettles , potholes, or ice pits are steep-sided depressions typical of many glacial and glaciofluvial deposits. (britannica.com)
  • They are often formed when glacial depressions called kettle lakes are formed. (betterbay.org)
  • Because of the post-glacial sea level rise, the sea reached the region during the middle Holocene, triggering thermo-abrasion of ice-rich coasts and the marine inundation of thermokarst depressions in the investigated area. (awi.de)
  • Perspective view of Pluto's highest mountains, Tenzing Montes, along the western margins of Sputnik Planitia, which rise three to six kilometres above the smooth nitrogen-ice plains in the foreground. (spaceanswers.com)
  • The topographic maps confirm that the highest known mountains on Pluto are the Tenzing Montes range, which formed along the southwestern margins of the frozen nitrogen ice sheet of Sputnik Planitia. (spaceanswers.com)
  • These steep-sided icy peaks have slopes of 40-degrees or more and rise several kilometres above the floor of Sputnik Planitia. (spaceanswers.com)
  • The ice sheet within the 1,000-kilometre (625-mile) wide Sputnik Planitia is on average 2.5 kilometres (1.5 miles) deep while the outer edges of the ice sheet lie an even deeper 3.5 kilometres (or 2.2. (spaceanswers.com)
  • Other unusual features of this landscape area are the groups of round or elliptical, sometimes interconnected depressions on the plateau, which can be seen on the left of images 2, 3 and 4. (fu-berlin.de)
  • During the following 15 million years, two massive mountain ranges running north to south, each about 2 kilometres high, rose up out of the east African plateau. (newscientist.com)
  • Intense underground steam explosions that occurred during the crater formation process could be responsible for the central depressions present in these 'twin' craters, located on Thaumasia Planum, an elevated plateau that lies immediately to the south of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the Solar System. (fu-berlin.de)
  • It's pretty overwhelming: at around 29 kilometres (18 miles) at its widest point and nearly two kilometres (1.2 miles) from the plateau to the Colorado River at its deepest, it's probably the biggest thing anyone could hope to witness in their lives. (mangahorror.com)
  • Approximately 4 billion years ago, the Tharsis bulge begins to form as magma rises under what is today the Thaumasia Plateau region of Mars. (mangahorror.com)
  • It emerges from a semi-circular lobe at the ice sheet margin and forms a narrow tongue with a length of 10 kilometres extending onto the ice-free Inglefield Land. (dlr.de)
  • Some years ago, radar measurements performed as part of NASA's Operation IceBridge, a campaign to monitor changes in the polar ice caps, revealed a circular depression in the ground underneath the ice where Hiawatha Glacier emerges from the ice sheet. (dlr.de)
  • 2016) Design distribution perspective of kilometres with enormous s. (ma-pro-ma.net)
  • 2016 browser rock field, we live all our kilometres tip in their video. (nukefix.org)
  • The highest peak rises approximately 6 kilometres (3.7 miles) above the base of the range, comparable to base-to-crest heights of Denali in Alaska, and Kilimanjaro in Kenya. (spaceanswers.com)
  • When the sun heats the ocean surface, heated water vapour rises to the surface, condenses, and forms clouds. (environmentgo.com)
  • The three missions launched in July 2020 forming a wave of unmanned spacecraft from United States, China and the United Arab Emirates to see if Mars was ever habitable, and to find out if it could be again. (yahoo.com)
  • It has a basaltic composition and was probably formed when an asteroid melted about 4.5 billion years ago. (fsg-bebra-jugend.de)
  • Finally, tectonic activity, landslides, asteroid impacts and even meltwater could have widened and deepened the long chasm to form Valles Marineris as we see it today. (mangahorror.com)
  • The newly mountainous terrain also became host to ephemeral deep-water lakes that formed and disappeared within hundreds of years ( Quaternary Science Reviews , in press ). (newscientist.com)
  • They regularly form on flat land around lakes or streams. (betterbay.org)
  • The water quickly evaporates, though, and beyond the river lies a string of salt lakes, covering a surface area of around 1,200 square kilometres. (kibrantours.com)
  • The river originally led to three ancient lakes in a depression west of Gebel Halal, a mountain in northern Sinai. (semide.net)
  • A line of sand dunes stretches 200 kilometres from Pātea in Taranaki to Paekākāriki, north of Wellington. (teara.govt.nz)
  • The majority of volcanoes in the world form along the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates. (un-spider.org)
  • Not all volcanoes are related to subduction: another way volcanoes can form is what's known as hotspot volcanism. (un-spider.org)
  • In the zone of such spreading the crust of Earth gets thinner and the heat from the depths of Earth breaks through it, forming countless volcanoes, hot springs, and other amazing geological phenomena. (wondermondo.com)
  • It's thought that as the Tharsis Montes was pushed up my molten rock to form gigantic volcanoes, the crust split to form fault lines around 3.5 billion years ago, which inevitably widened to form Valles Marineris. (mangahorror.com)
  • Strange, bright areas inside some craters turned out to be irregularly shaped depressions, says David Blewett, a planetary scientist at the Laurel laboratory. (nature.com)
  • Countless impact craters of different sizes were formed and later eroded here over the course of billions of years. (fu-berlin.de)
  • Through these erosion processes, impact craters that had once been trough-shaped were worn away over time by wind, water or ice into shallow depressions devoid of relief. (fu-berlin.de)
  • This geological feature was probably formed when subterranean ice melted and the resulting caverns collapsed. (fu-berlin.de)
  • The river was diverted from its original course when geological uplift formed an arch of stratified rock called an anticline that blocked its path. (semide.net)
  • The highly variable nature of the sediments laid down by such a braided stream reflects the unstable environment in which they form. (britannica.com)
  • The entire beach is backed by an outer Holocene barrier, with active dunes along the northern 9 km, backed in turn by a swampy interbarrier depression, then a Pleistocene inner barrier, the whole system 2-3 km wide. (beachsafe.org.au)
  • during the early to middle Holocene warming, a general landscape transformation occurred from an extensive Late Pleistocene accumulation plain to a strongly thermokarst-dominated relief dissected by numerous depressions. (awi.de)
  • As the ice melts away, this ice-contact stratified drift slumps and partially collapses to form stagnant ice deposits. (britannica.com)
  • These eventually lead to the eastern end: Coprates Chasma, defined by its layered deposits that could originate from landslides or water erosion, Eos and the Ganges chasmata and, finally, where the canyon terminates in the Chryse region, a mere kilometre (0.62 miles) above Valles Marineris's deepest point. (mangahorror.com)
  • They are at six locations over an area of about 10 kilometres. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • Starting from this chaotic area, a long, narrow depression follows a crescent shape into the region, which can be seen in the upper part of image 2. (fu-berlin.de)
  • underlies an area of 1.7 million square kilometres, approximately 22 per cent of the continent. (aussietowns.com.au)
  • The lowest land area is the shoreline of the Dead Sea Depression in Israel, Jordan and Syria. (darkskiesfilm.com)
  • The largest below-sea-level depression by surface area is the Caspian Depression of Kazakhstan and Russia. (darkskiesfilm.com)
  • In case of the Thar coal, however, it is largely believed in the area that the company is violating environmental standards and safeguards while reinjection surplus mine water at Meghay Jo Tar. (com.pk)
  • the study area consists of the Bykovsky Peninsula and the adjacent Khorogor valley in the Kharaulakh ridge situated a few kilometres southeast from the Lena delta. (awi.de)
  • Valles Marineris is unbelievably enormous, spanning over 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles) in length, with some parts of it 200 kilometres (125 miles) wide and over ten kilometres (six miles) deep. (mangahorror.com)
  • The cave is half a kilometre long and in places 50 metres wide. (theguardian.com)
  • Stunning drone footage has revealed details of the Batagaika crater, a one-kilometre-long gash in Russia's Far East that forms the world's biggest permafrost crater. (mahampsc.in)
  • The biggest scarps, which can be hundreds of kilometres long, are probably cracks that formed as the planet cooled and shrank over time. (nature.com)
  • To do this, the team propose that a two-kilometre-long and six-metre-deep channel should be dug through the uplifted structure, to divert water back along the river's previous course. (semide.net)
  • The front of the Humboldt Glacier is over 100 kilometres wide where it flows into the Nares Strait. (dlr.de)
  • A single river, the Awash River, flows into the Dallol Depression. (kibrantours.com)
  • The terraces and alluvial plains on the lower Ōroua and Manawatū rivers were formed from sediment that gathered at the base of the mountains. (teara.govt.nz)
  • This gives way to three more chasmata and the deepest part of the canyon at 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) from the plains above. (mangahorror.com)
  • Technology Experiment Carrier 1) will then orbit Earth at an altitude of 500 kilometres, from where they will each use two infrared cameras to keep an eye on forest fires and other high-temperature events. (dlr.de)
  • They are formed with bare flats of mud or sand that are thinly shielded by seawater during high tides. (betterbay.org)
  • It also increases the risk of colon and breast cancer, high blood pressure, lipid disorder, osteoporosis, depression and anxiety. (who.int)
  • The Qattara Depression, which includes the country's lowest point, encompasses 19,605 square kilometers (7,570 sq mi), which is similar to the size of Lake Ontario. (darkskiesfilm.com)
  • They believe this could redirect enough runoff during flash floods to create 1,400 square kilometres of fertile land in the depression west of Gebel Halal, where surface clays, low groundwater salinity and a near-surface aquifer also offer promise for agriculture. (semide.net)
  • The surface texture suggests that ice was once present, possibly in the form of a rock glacier. (fu-berlin.de)
  • Streams that flow over the terminus of a glacier often deposit stratified drift in their channels and in depressions on the ice surface. (britannica.com)
  • The image was taken by the OSIRIS scientific camera system aboard ESA's Rosetta space probe on 14 October 2014 from a distance of around eight kilometres above the surface. (mpg.de)
  • The conditions favourable for the formation and intensification of tropical storms are: Large sea surface with temperature higher than 27° C. Presence of the â ¦ Even in areas with very warm sea-surface temperatures located suitably far from the equator, tropical cyclones have no chance to form without another crucial ingredient. (imingo.net)
  • These mosses and other plants go on to form a loose, floating layer of tousled vegetation on the water's surface. (betterbay.org)
  • The spacecraft is currently about 15 kilometres above the planet's surface, the closest that it has ever been. (nature.com)
  • An old, approximately 20-kilometre-wide impact crater, which is cut in two by a valley-shaped depression, is barely visible as an outline. (fu-berlin.de)
  • In this situation, a zone of magmatic activity-or a hotspot-in the middle of a tectonic plate can push up through the crust to form a volcano. (un-spider.org)
  • The pressure and extra weight of magma led to parts of the crust forming graben - valleys sunk along fault lines. (mangahorror.com)
  • Given that the extremely large slabs of stone used in their production were transported over large distances (over 150 kilometres (93 mi)), requiring a great deal of human effort and resources, it is thought that the monuments represent portraits of powerful individual Olmec rulers. (wikipedia.org)
  • The finer silt-sized particles are transported by airflow turbulence in suspension over much greater distances to form loess. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Thar coal is buried under three layers of groundwater - dune sand aquifer, coal seam roof aquifer and coal seam floor aquifer. (com.pk)
  • Killick Beach (NSW 150) trends southwest from Hungry Head (Fig. 4.78) for 14 km only in the last kilometre swinging to face the east in lee of Crescent Head. (beachsafe.org.au)
  • One structure - which accommodated the birth of the Labor Party of Western Australia - was transported from Coolgardie, 580 kilometres north-east of Perth. (edu.au)
  • Composite volcano : also known as stratovolcanoes, they are formed from explosive eruptions. (un-spider.org)
  • The 1.5 by 3 km large crater of Dallol Volcano has formed by the collapse of salt layers. (wondermondo.com)
  • 8:30 am: The severe cyclonic storm has weakened into a cyclonic storm, with wind speeds of 80-90 kmph gusting to 100 kmph, and has moved around 20 kilometres northwest of â ¦ Cyclone Gaja strikes Tamil Nadu. (chicagoindesignusergroup.com)
  • Formed between 100 and 250 million years ago, the Basin comprises alternating layers of water-bearing (permeable) sandstone aquifers and non-water-bearing (impermeable) siltstones and mudstones. (aussietowns.com.au)
  • What they all have in common is that they look like forms created by flowing water. (theguardian.com)
  • 1. a body of water forming an indentation of the shoreline, larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf. (en-academic.com)
  • Once there it plans to search for underground water and evidence of possible ancient life forms. (yahoo.com)
  • One possibility is that a space rock travelling from farther out in the Solar System slammed into Mercury, depositing water in the form of ice with darker material atop it. (nature.com)
  • Accessing that depression would allow its stored water to be used for agriculture," says Dr. Farouk El-Baz , an author of the paper and director of the Center for Remote Sensing. (semide.net)
  • In some cases where the glacier either never formed moraines or where the moraines were obliterated by the outwash or postglacial erosion , terraces are the only means of ice margin reconstruction. (britannica.com)
  • Kame terraces form in a similar manner but between the lateral margin of a glacier and the valley wall. (britannica.com)
  • Some of the terraces along these rivers have formed anticlines (arch-like folds). (teara.govt.nz)
  • The build-up of salts cause interesting patterned rims and chimneys to form along the pungent pools. (kibrantours.com)
  • Further downstream, at Foxton, the Manawatū River forms a large estuary. (teara.govt.nz)
  • A few kilometres south of Cudworth, the Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows, which includes a chapel and the Stations of the Cross, draws large numbers of people during an annually conducted pilgrimage. (uregina.ca)
  • In the video two explorers clamber across uneven terrain at the base of the depression, marked by irregular surfaces and small hummocks, which began to form after the surrounding forest was cleared in the 1960s and the permafrost underground began to melt, causing the land to sink. (mahampsc.in)
  • The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is a classification used for most Western Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of "tropical depressions" and "tropical storms", and thereby become hurricanes. (imingo.net)
  • The majority of hurricanes form around the equator, over warm oceans. (environmentgo.com)
  • Tropical storms that occur in the Atlantic Ocean and have winds of at least 119 kilometres per hour (74 miles per hour) are known as hurricanes. (environmentgo.com)
  • Kettles form when till or outwash is deposited around ice blocks that have become separated from the active glacier by ablation. (britannica.com)
  • Gorrano is a natural depression about 27 kilometres south of the mining site in TCB-II. (com.pk)
  • Around 10 kilometre south of Gorrano, is another natural depression near Dukar Chou, where an additional reservoir was built last year. (com.pk)
  • An anticline is the opposite - a fold shaped like an arch or upside-down U. This can be formed when the earth is forced up, rumpling like a blanket. (teara.govt.nz)
  • One rare exception to the lack of tropical cyclones near the equator was Typhoon Vamei which formed near Singapore on December 27, 2001. (imingo.net)
  • Some 20 kilometres (10 mi) west of the depression lie the oases of Siwa in Egypt and Jaghbub in Libya in smaller but similar depressions. (darkskiesfilm.com)
  • How Valles Marineris formed It's thought that Valles Marineris is an example of a giant rift valley, similar to Africa's rift valley system. (mangahorror.com)
  • Or did two smaller pieces of rock which today form the head and the body of the comet merge into one? (mpg.de)
  • Since the amount of sediment laid down generally decreases with distance from the ice margin, the deposit is often wedge-shaped in cross section , ideally gently sloping off the end moraine formed at that ice position and thinning downstream. (britannica.com)
  • across their erosion-marked surfaces, individual boulders and hills form a jumbled structure of outliers (German: Zeugenberge) in a chaotic arrangement. (fu-berlin.de)
  • As a result here has formed more than one kilometre thick layer of salt. (wondermondo.com)
  • A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places that has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by foot or by some form of conveyance (including a motor vehicle, cart, bicycle, or horse). (vetcan.org)