Sentences with phrase «seaward edge»
(Image Caption: This view of the seaward edge of Antarctica's floating Ross Ice Shelf shows a region where the ice is cracking and may produce an iceberg.
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On the southern, seaward edge of Killary Harbour, she lives and works slap - bang in the middle of a view.
The scientists said one - third of the Great Barrier Reef lies beyond the seaward edge of the shallower reefs, and the discovery of this prominent undersea landslide and its vast debris field in the deep Great Barrier Reef reveals a far more complex landscape than previously known.
Their seaward edges are speeding up, and the ice sheet behind them is thinning.
Not exact matches
Altogether, researchers analysed data covering a 94,000 - square - kilometre arc (an area about the size of Indiana or Hungary) that includes the edge of the continental shelf and the steep slope just seaward of it, says co-author Adam Skarke, a geologist at Mississippi State University in Starkville.
A tsunami caused by an earthquake along a subduction zone happens when the leading edge of the overriding tectonic plate breaks free and springs seaward, displacing the sea floor and the water above it.
Following the narrow canyons seaward will quickly take you to the reef edge.