Sentence examples for one metre deep from inspiring English sources

Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has excellent conditions, with snow over one metre deep.

The surface of Sabkhah Maṭṭī, the largest single exposed sabkhah, is sometimes composed of soft, wet, muddy, and salty slush, with a hard crust less than three feet (one metre) deep.

Observations by the Mars probe's stereo camera have previously shown areas characteristic of old riverbed, with rounded pebbles that indicate there were flowing rivers up to one metre deep in the past.

If the gully which the dam crosses is less than one metre deep, no spillway is required.

In the Philippines, for example, it is estimated that soil erosion carries away a volume of soil equivalent to one metre deep over 200 000 hectares every year.

After site identification it is necessary to determine whether the structure needs a defined spillway: as a rule of thumb no spillway is required if the gully is less than one metre deep.

In contrast, he said, "I've dived ninety-two, ninety-three metres a couple times, but I probably won't attempt to go one metre deeper until I've done it ten times".

· cheese-rolling.co.uk Wife Carrying, Sonkajärvi, Finland In this summer race, male competitors race to carry wives along a 250m course - including dry obstacles and one-metre deep water.

Wybunbury Moss is a dangerous place to walk; it is only one metre thick in places, and beneath it a hidden lake, 13 metres deep.

Although soils over most of the territory are shallow, varying in depth from a few inches to about three feet (one metre), pockets of deep alluvial soils along the banks of the Molonglo and Murrumbidgee rivers are a source for garden topsoil in the city.

Individual cracks more than one metre wide and 15 metres deep have been observed.