Sentence examples for extend for kilometers from inspiring English sources

These dykes extend for kilometers with varying thickness.

Louisiana had requested permits for sand berms that would extend for 160 kilometers.

Systems of elephant trails may be used and re-used for centuries, and create incised features that extend for many kilometers on migration routes.

UHV AC power transmission lines generally extend for thousands of kilometers.

Wide area networks (WANs) are private computer networks that may extend for thousands of kilometers.

In the great 2001 Peru earthquake, the rupture extended for 70 kilometers, skirted a barrier on the fault, then continued for another 200 kilometers, and 30 seconds later broke the barrier.

This reservoir is developed in a channel system that extends for several kilometers.

"For years, we had been trying to find out what happens to this shield," says Nicole Cornilleau-Wehrlin of the Centre d'Etude des Environnements Terrestres et Planétaires in Vélizy, whose instruments detected waves in the magnetosphere that extended for 1000 kilometers.

Based on numerical calculations and analytical consideration, we conclude that this anomalous antisymmetric instability is possibly produced by a basaltic magma flow of a few meters per second through a dike with thickness of 1 m and extending for several kilometers; this origin can explain some of the characteristics of volcanic tremors.

They are spaced between 50 and apart, extending for several kilometers to the north, south and west.

They extend for more than 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) from the Moroccan port of Agadir in the southwest to the Tunisian capital of Tunis in the northeast.