Sentences with phrase «retreated southward»

«Clearly, the new island was detached from the mainland when the connecting glacier - bridge retreated southward,» Mr. Jepsen said, adding that future maps would take note of the change.

As eastern Pacific temperature trends from Alaska to the Southern California Bight reversed, species of fish that had once moved northward are now retreating southward.

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Together with the progressive shortening of the ISM season and gradual southward retreat of the summer ITCZ, the total amount of monsoon precipitation decreased in those areas located at the northern fringe of the ISM domain, but increased in areas closer to the equator.

NSF - funded scientists believe at least part of the answer lies in the frozen tundras of Siberia, where greater - than - average autumn snowfall causes weather patterns in the Arctic regions to shift southward into the midlatitudes during the winter, while less - than - average snowfall causes the patterns to retreat poleward.