"If an ant heap is a meter high over ground, which is to say, about 3 feet, it's probably digging up material from three to four meters below, so you can collect samples from those ant heaps, " said Mr. Petzer, who says that is a constant ratio.
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For the last half century, a twenty-meter high statue called Kartlis Deda, or Mother of Georgia, has stood on a mountain-top overlooking the capital Tbilisi.
On its head sits a three-meter-high crown, for a total height of 36 meters.
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Another monumental work, and among my favorites, is Swiss artist Alex Hanimann's "Vanessa" (2012), a 5-meter-high chrome statue of a tomboyish teenage girl that gleams in the sun and reflects the surrounding buildings.
The Angel Falls cascade down a 2560 meter-high table mountain.
The Mount Kuwol Biosphere Reserve, situated on the west coast of the Democratic People s Republic of Korea and 100 kilometres south-east of Pyongyang, consists of a 954 meter-high mountain, adjacent coastal wetlands, lagoons and river estuaries, and agricultural areas.
He hadn't intended to make wine in Rutherford until the local planning commission forbade his having a 5-meter-high gate on his property.
One quarter of the Hotel des Bergues' rooms are suites, with spacious sitting rooms and windows that look out onto Lake Geneva and the landmark Jet D'Eau, a 140-meter-high geyser of water that is reputed to be Europe's tallest fountain.
Behind the wheel of the Mini Countryman is Guerlain Chicherit, famed world champion of the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup, who managed to launch a modified version of the vehicle off an 8-meter high ramp, do a full 360 degree back-flip, and land it back on all four tires.
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Each day he clamped a Lange V9 ski boot onto the metal stem of a 2.5-meter-high Instron compression machine and flipped the power switch.
Behind the wheel of the Mini Countryman is Guerlain Chicherit, famed world champion of the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup, who managed to launch the the modified version of the vehicle off an 8-meter high ramp, do a full 360 degree back-flip, and land it back on all four tires.
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Ride a glass elevator to the 160-meter-high observation deck for an incredible view of the city and its surroundings.
With more than a hundred accredited diplomats, Iran's embassy in Managua - a massive compound surrounded by four-meter-high concrete walls lined with razor wire - is one of the largest diplomatic compounds in the world.
Most of the turkey bones were found at the Maya culture's Jaguar Paw Temple, a 30-foot (9-meter)-high platform "topped by triadic architecture and decorated with sculptured stucco masks, " the researchers write.
This 73-meter-high sandstone tower was built as a symbol of victory in the 13th century.
The storm caused two-meter-high (six-and-a-half-feet) drifts and was blamed for derailing a bullet train in Akita prefecture, south of Hokkaido, on Saturday afternoon.
An old woman was cleaning cobwebs and birds' nests out of the high-up stained-glass nooks with a 5-meter-long branch of bamboo.
Stand in the center of the rotunda and gaze up to the heavens through the eight-meter-high oculus at the center of the five-ton concrete dome --a stunning feat of ancient engineering, still intact after two thousand years.
The robbers apparently knew that one segment of the airport's perimeter, protected by two layers of three-meter-high fencing and concrete blocks, could be crossed more easily due to construction, said a person familiar with the events.
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