Sentence examples for below mean sea level from inspiring English sources

The dunes on this coast protect densely populated former tidal wetlands that form the Flemish coastal plain, much of which lies below mean sea level.

Because the railroad datum was deliberately set very deep -- exactly 300 feet below mean sea level at Sandy Hook, N.J. -- all measurements from it can be expressed as positive elevations.

The Dutch Ministry of Transport, he said, uses the figure 60%, which counts land below high water level during storms, while others use 30%, which is land below mean sea level.

For constructing the time series of sea level data in an individual station and comparing data among different stations, the PSMSL used a common datum, revised local reference (RLR), which is generally 700 cm below mean sea level.

Between 2011 and 2013, the breakwaters were removed and the boulders were used to create a continuous submerged breakwater farther offshore, with a wider crest at −0.5 m below mean sea level.

The Moho resides at ∼25 30 km depth below mean sea level in southeastern coastal Norway and parts of Denmark, ∼35 45 km across the southern Scandes, and ∼50 60 km near the Norwegian Swedish border.

Prior to construction works, it was suggested that dredging of the new harbour (Yangtzehaven) would disturb the subsurface stratigraphy to around −21 m below present mean sea level, a zone which is known to contain archaeological remains.

These new records show that river channels of last glacial age incised down to c. −40 m into an older (possibly MIS5 age) marine sequence which forms the floor of the deltaic basin and exists primarily at c. 10 m–15 m below present mean sea level.

The base of this barrier system is made up of beachrock down to approximately 12 m below present mean sea level (b.s.l).l

This preference for high altitudes is influenced by latitude: in the farthest south of its range it never breeds below 2500 m above mean sea level, but in the northernmost part of its range it often breeds by the sea.

The pattern should be flown so the Inbound Leg is one minute long if you are flying at or below 14,000 feet (4,267.2 m) Mean Sea Level (MSL) or one and a half minutes above 14,000 feet (4,267.2 m) MSL.