Sentences with phrase «drifts southward»

Local officials say the evacuations are a precaution as a plume of noxious black smoke drifts southward from the plant.

How Icebergs Drift Southward.

Now, a detailed look at the magnetic signatures from the lab of paleomagnetist John Tarduno of the University of Rochester in New York confirms the suspicion that the hot spot drifted southward 3 to 5 centimeters per year — faster than many crustal plates move.

Not exact matches

In 2005, this southward drift changed abruptly.

The amount of detrital petrological tracers transported by icebergs and deposited in the ice - rafted debris belt (an Atlantic region between 40 - 50 ° N) greatly increases during episodes of southward and eastward advection of cold surface waters and drift ice from the Nordic and Labrador seas (Bond et al., 2001; figure 48 A).