测量员从海岸向内陆行进数千英里，每增加几英尺就停下来测量海拔，每增加一英尺就用两根杆子做标记。
Surveyors marched inland from the coast for thousands of miles, stopping at increments of as little as a few feet to measure their elevation, and marking each increment with two poles.
通过测量因纳斯卡板块挤压海岸发生碰撞造成的地面的缓慢上升与下降，他们能够估算压力的实际聚集速度。
By measuring the slow rising and falling of the ground as the inexorable collision of the Nazca plate squeezed the coast, they could calculate how fast strain was actually building.
这些特性很难被模型化，如果你希望自己的模型能够更准确的话，最好是在海啸远离海岸没有被上述特性影响时予以测量。
That stuff is really hard to model. And if you want to make your model better you want the measurement of the tsunami out in the ocean where it is not affected by that stuff.
在偏远的北加州海岸森林中有一棵红杉，经测量后被暂时确定为目前世界上最高的生物。
Redwood NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - a redwood in a remote Northern California coastal forest has been tentatively measured as the world's tallest living thing.
官员报告说，当海啸重击海岸线时，所测量到的海啸可能达3米高。
Officials report the tsunami may have measured up to three meters high when it struck the coastline.
这次调查整合了自2003年2月到2007年11月期间ICE卫星采集的5000万次测量数据，科学家发现，在格陵兰岛和南极的关键海岸线上，所有纬度上的冰川都在变薄。
The survey, compiled from 50m satellite measurements taken between February 2003 and November 2007, shows glaciers thinning at all latitudes in Greenland and along key Antarctic coastlines.
他用了几年时间到美国的东部去测量它的海岸。
For several years he sailed to the east of America where he charted its coasts.
我们对海岸进行了测量。
它主要用于测量桩基钻孔的井径与井筒偏斜，也可用于帷幕、沉井井筒测量以及海岸工程、岩盐水溶开采的井下溶腔测量等。
Besides the diameter and inclination of pile foundation drill-hole, it can also be applied to other engineering, such as segmentation sinking, caisson sinking and halite mining by water-solution.
本文介绍了杭州湾跨海大桥控制测量技术，讨论了在近海区利用全站仪对常规打桩船打桩的测量技术和在离海岸较远时利用GPS打桩系统打桩的方法。
In the paper, the surveying technique of the bridge is introduced, the application of total station instrument in piling of Hangzhou Bay Major bridge is discussed.
本文介绍了杭州湾跨海大桥控制测量技术，讨论了在近海区利用全站仪对常规打桩船打桩的测量技术和在离海岸较远时利用GPS打桩系统打桩的方法。
In the paper, the surveying technique of the bridge is introduced, the application of total station instrument in piling of Hangzhou Bay Major bridge is discussed.
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