Sentences with phrase «seaward from»

For Texas and the Gulf Coast of Florida, jurisdiction extends from the coast to 3 marine leagues (9 nautical miles) seaward from the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.

The sampling locations ranged from the innermost area of the fjord just seaward from the modern ice shelf to locations farther out to sea that the shelf would have covered 2 millennia ago.

Just a short distance seaward from the elkhorn stand is an absolutely luxurious coral garden every photographer will want to visit.

Night comes down, the strong land - breeze rushes seaward from the Peaks singing a mournful dirge among the treetops; the fitful glare of the fire throws weird shadows among the tall trees, eclipsing the twinkle of the firefly that flits among the leaves; and all is silence and slumber, save when a gaunt figure steals out of the hut, its lean proportions doubly grotesque in the uncertain firelight, to watch the progress of the grilling of the prized meat.

Not exact matches

Even relatively large calving events, where tabular ice chunks the size of Manhattan or bigger calve from the seaward front of the shelf, can be considered normal if the ice sheet is in overall balance.

Spectacular Hinchinbrook Island dominates the seaward view from Cardwell.

The Sanctuary boundary begins at the Mean High Water Line of and extends seaward to a distance of approximately six (nmi) from the following islands and offshore rocks: San Miguel Island, Santa Cruz Island, Santa Rosa Island, Anacapa Island, Santa Barbara Island, Richardson Rock, and Castle Rock (the Islands).

Approximately 75 cayes are in the Placencia / Laughing Bird Caye Coastal Planning Region (from the mouth of the South Stann Creek River to the Mouth of Monkey River, extending seaward to include the Meso - American Barrier Reef, with Norval Caye in the north, Pompion Caye in the south, and Gladden Spit in the east).

The barrier reef region has been extensively studied and has been shown to possess distinct zones from the lagoon seaward to the drop off wall.

Of course, you could always wander onto Dulas Bay Beach from the seaward side by walking along the coastal path from TRAETH YR ORA BEACH.

Richard B. Alley, an expert on Greenland's ice sheet at Penn State, told me it's still possible that flows of meltwater from surface lakes could start large areas of ice moving seaward, particularly if the melt zones continue to expand inland as they have been doing for years now.

After the journal Science published a paper earlier this month concluding that summertime gushers of meltwater percolating to the base of Greenland's ice sheet didn't appear to speed the seaward flow of ice, one result was a burst of excited comments from bloggers and others asserting that the impacts of global warming have been hyped.

In many areas, for example, the coast is threatened not only from its seaward side by physical ocean processes, but also from its landward side by encroaching development.

There is excepted from the operation of sections 3 and 4 all of the oil and gas mineral rights for lands beneath the navigable waters that are located within the expanded offshore State seaward boundaries established under this Act.

on the seaward - side we have bountiful harvest of shell - fish, on the landward - side we have bird and mammal life... the evidence of indigenous people's fish - traps indicate regular harvesting of food there, the abundance of fresh water from the natural Sth.

A new port planned for north of the city would ramp up rail traffic as coal would be hauled through here nine times daily from Wyoming and Montana for a seaward journey to Asia.

Its seaward extent ranges from 13.5 nautical miles in the north to.6 of a nautical mile in the south.