Sentence examples for metres thickness from inspiring English sources

The stronghold achieved its final dimensions – area of more than 30,000 square metres, thickness of the wall between 1.2 and, and maximum height over 10 m – under the reign of Bishop Johannes IV Kievel (1515 1527).

As the road enters the Largo Condessa do Juncal, you can appreciate the wall's three-metre thickness by going into the reception area of a modern office, the only 20th-century building on the left-hand side of the square.

The total thickness of such sequences is commonly many thousands of metres, but the individual beds are thin, only a few centimetres to a few metres thick.

The layers range from several millimetres to many metres in thickness and vary greatly in shape.

The loess layers average 165 260 feet (50 80 metres) in thickness and mask the detailed relief of the underlying surfaces.

The team looked at satellite radar imagery taken between 1998 and 2012 to find that Larsen C lost 4 metres of thickness.

Some strata consist almost entirely of quartz over large lateral distances and tens or hundreds of metres in thickness.

It is located over one of the thickest coal deposits in the world, measuring up to nearly 80 feet (24 metres) in thickness.

Loess blown from outwash fans and river valleys in front of the glaciers accumulated to more than eight metres in thickness along much of the Mississippi River valley.

Excavation there revealed a great platform of mud brick about 20 feet (6 metres) in thickness, with a massive brick wall around the perimeter.

Some masses seen on the face of frozen cliffs may appear as horizontal bodies a few centimetres to 3 metres in thickness and 0.3 to 14 metres long, but the true shape of these ice wedges can be seen only in three dimensions.