In subduction zones, where older and colder oceanic crust descends beneath another tectonic plate, deep-focus earthquakes may occur at much greater depths ( ranging from 300 up to 700 kilometers ).

From the Amazon the Napo is navigable for river craft up to its Curaray branch, a distance of about 216 miles ( 350 km ), and perhaps a bit further ; thence, by painful canoe navigation, its upper waters may be ascended as far as Santa Rosa, the usual point of embarkation for any venturesome traveller who descends from the Quito tableland.

* 1994 – NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus ( the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere ).

From the abbey, the Funicular de Sant Joan funicular railway goes up to the top of the mountain, where there are various abandoned hovels in the cliff faces that were previously the abodes of reclusive monks, whilst the Funicular de Santa Cova descends to a shrine.

Traveling westward, CA-41 West leaves the city and gradually climbs up and over the Santa Lucia Coastal Range, where it then quickly descends and meets the Pacific Ocean, right into the city of Morro Bay, CA at its westernmost terminus when it meets Highway 1, better known as the Pacific Coast Highway.

The substructure of the South Tomb is entered through a tunnel-like corridor with a staircase that descends about 30m before opening up into the pink granite burial chamber.

The funicular railway operates by ' hauling ' up one carriage using electric motors to pull the haul rope as the other carriage descends at the same time.

She descends slowly and with fumbling feet .” O backs up and hurries down the steps to the right again where he sits down on a step and presses his face against the balusters.

The south tower is in the water, and descends to as a consequence of the shifting sandbanks that make up the estuary.

The wave travels down to the stomach even if the bolus of food descends at a greater rate than the wave itself, and will continue even if for some reason the bolus gets stuck further up the esophagus.

Wide tracts are converted from fertile plains into arid desert, springs and streams are dried up, and the rainfall, instead of percolating gently through the forest floor and finding its way by easy stages by brook and river to the lower levels, now descends the valley in hurrying torrents, carrying before it tempestuous floods.

From the east, north and west Toompea is bordered for 1. 5 km by a cliff with a height of up to 25 m. The southern slope of the hill descends more gently.

The male in display, makes short flights up into the air and descends slowly with fluttering flight accompanied by a rapid series of chipping high notes.

The A4 descends steeply before climbing again up Black Dog Hill past the Bowood House Estate.

US 95 descends to Basque Station ( webcam ) and Burns Junction at 3960 feet ( 1207 m ), then eastward down to Rome ( 3390 ft, 1033 m ) and up to Jordan Valley ( 4389 ', 1338 m ) ( webcam ).

", with the line: " Halfway up The Wrekin with an empty flask of tea, a fog descends and takes away my visibility ..."

Baker descends into a depression and his son runs away, eventually ending up with an uncle, a lecherous predator.

It follows the course of the Travers River, goes up over the sub alpine Travers Saddle ( 1787 metres ), and then descends along the East Sabine Valley and Sabine Valley to Lake Rotoroa.

Between the two peaks lies the Obere Glocknerscharte which, at, is the highest col in Austria, from which a couloir up to 55 ° in gradient and 600 metres high descends to the Glocknerkees glacier, called the Pallavicinirinne after the climber, Alfred von Pallavicini.

In the tradition of St. Dionysus the Areopagite, theoria is the lifting up of the individual out of time, space and created being, while the Triune God reaches down, or descends, to the hesychast.

* Big Barda: Big Barda is in fact a former porn star called Hot Gates who, when America descends into chaos and anarchy, takes up the mantle in order to declare herself dictator of Columbus, Ohio.

Saying he doesn't know much about harvest festival, he offers to tell a story about God, which descends into a foul-mouthed satire about how the Tory Party was created ( having been informed there was a surplus of bodies but no brains, hearts and vocal cords, God gave instructions to " Sew ' em up anyway.

Starting off from Petőfi híd's bridgehead at Boráros tér, it descends towards Mester utca, and continues up to Üllői út, which forms the boundary between Ferencváros and District VIII, called Józsefváros.

A phugoid or fugoid () is an aircraft motion where the vehicle pitches up and climbs, and then pitches down and descends, accompanied by speeding up and slowing down as it goes " uphill " and " downhill.

Conrad descends the Apollo Lunar Module | lunar module ladder, moments before becoming the third human to walk on the Moon.

A study published in 2007 in PLoS Genetics, led by University of Michigan and University College London researchers, suggests that the Bering land bridge migration occurred 12, 000 years ago, that every human who migrated across the land bridge came from Eastern Siberia, and that every Native American directly descends from that same group of Eastern Siberian migrants.

( Crucially, the larynx or voicebox, originally high in the throat to let the baby breathe while swallowing, descends during the first year of life, allowing a pharynx to develop and all the sounds of human speech to be formed.

: A pure blooded Sennyo ( a child of two Sennin parents ), she can only live in the pure air of the Sennin world, and as the air of the human world is poisonous to her, she rarely descends there.

She descends to Earth to bear witness to problems of human beings.

The sky descends, and the human world comes to an end.

While Gyekye argues that the individual is ontologically complete, he also acknowledges that people live in community, as in the proverb, " When a person descends from heaven, he / she descends into a human society.

The soul is unable to ascend by its own power ; therefore, a heavenly being, concordant with the will of the supreme principle, descends into the human world and redeems the soul by showing it the way through the spheres which sunder it from the world divine.

One of her most iconic stage roles was the title character in the 1938 Rodgers and Hart musical I Married an Angel, in which she played an exquisite angel who descends from heaven to marry Hungarian banker Dennis King, but whose complete lack of human guile presents him with a whole new set of problems.

When the lwa descends upon a practitioner, the practitioner's body is being used by the spirit, according to the tradition.

During this time, the neck descends closer to the body and the eyelids begin to lower.

* Chapters 1 – 16 The deceased enters the tomb, descends to the underworld, and the body regains its powers of movement and speech.

A lander is a spacecraft which descends toward and comes to rest on the surface of an astronomical body.

Because the air inside the suit is compressed as the diver descends, a modern diving dry suit also has a gas inflation valve, which lets the diver control the buoyancy of the suit by injecting gas from a diving cylinder to avoid the suit from being squeezed tightly and painfully onto the diver's body during descent.

The mouth leads into a tubular pharynx which descends for some distance into the body before opening into the gastrovascular cavity that fills the interior of the body and tentacles.

The Church of God is a holiness Pentecostal body that descends from the Christian Union movement of Richard Spurling, A. J. Tomlinson and others.

During this exaggerated flight, the male — with his neck extended and his head feathers erect — tilts his body from horizontal to vertical, and descends slowly and springs upwards by rapidly beating his wings after alighting on the ground.

Barotrauma typically occurs to air spaces within a body when that body moves to or from a higher pressure environment, such as when a SCUBA diver, a free-diving diver or an airplane passenger ascends or descends, or during uncontrolled decompression of a pressure vessel.

Air spaces in the diver's body and gas held in flexible equipment shrink as the diver descends and expand as the diver ascends.

Enraged by his lover's death, the Prince uses the Dagger to massacre the last of the sand monsters in the tower and descends to weep over Farah's body.

However, as the title descends to " heirs of the body ", while the Dukedom of Norfolk descends to " heirs male ", the titles may eventually separate again, or the barony go in abeyance.

* In the bodily form of man and woman, Yesod corresponds to the organ of procreation, analogously where the Tiferet body descends towards action, expressed in the procreative power to create life.

Since the lung is the uppermost zang organ, its qi descends to promote the circulation of qi and body fluid through the body and to conduct them downwards.

On reaching Mars, the MEV detaches from the main body, which is left in orbit piloted by a single astronaut, and descends towards the planet's surface.

As the body descends, the hips and knees undergo flexion, the ankle dorsiflexes and muscles around the joint contract eccentrically, reaching maximal contraction at the bottom of the movement while slowing and reversing descent.

Shiro shrieks and green energy shoots from his body into the air and descends onto the three resurrecteds: Botaro, Mataemon, Inshun.

As Katarina seeks other lovers, the emotionally repressed and despondent Peter descends into neuroses, eventually leading him to tearfully murder a prostitute ( played by Rita Russek ), with the same name as his wife, at a Munich peep show before sodomising her dead body.

As a result of the Psychic transformation, light, peace, power is drawn into and descends into the body, transforming all of its parts — physical, vital, and mental.

Once imprisoned in the Château, the traveller descends to the bowels of the building and finds a crypt, wherein lies the body of " Christ ".