The entire mountainside had peeled away, leaving just a vertical extent of rock connecting the two points.

In mines where the lodes have significant vertical extent there can be many numbered levels, one below the other.

The vertical extent of jets is not known.

"The depleted layer has an unusual vertical extent this year, so it appears that the 2006 ozone hole will go down as a record-setter."

Cloud types with significant vertical extent can form in the low or middle altitude ranges depending on the moisture content of the air.

Several but not all methods of altitude classification treat clouds with significant vertical extent as a separate family.

The cloud layer achieves significant vertical extent as it lowers and changes into nimbostratus.

These microseismic events are often used to map the horizontal and vertical extent of the fracturing.

Previously, he only knew how to draw the vertical extent of the rocks, but not how to display them horizontally.

To be tall is to have a vertical extent greater than the average.