Sentences with phrase «southward from»

The New Madrid Fault line is a 150 - mile fault system that extends southward from Cairo, Illinois into Arkansas.

The New Madrid fault line is a 150 - mile fault system that extends southward from Cairo, Illinois.

The most notable cold, on the other hand, took place in eastern Asia in January, with extreme temperature lows extending southward from eastern China to as far south as Thailand.

But it got even larger when a cold Jet Stream made a sharp dip southward from Canada down into the eastern U.S..

The pattern is also associated with the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation, which is the dominant atmospheric pattern observed during severe winters and comprises a weakened jet stream and more cold air intrusions southward from the Arctic into North America and Eurasia.

They are interpreted as periods of cooler, ice - bearing surface waters displaced eastward from the Labrador Sea and southward from the Nordic Seas.

The 6,000 m3 / s evapotransportation southward from the pre 1964 Nile flood contributed directly to the formation of JASO AEW system.

These carry the North Atlantic's excess salt southward from the bottom of the Atlantic, down into the southern oceans, and some continues into the Pacific Ocean.

In addition, the tilt on its axis that gives Earth its seasons results in a twice - yearly shift in the zone of maximum radiation: northward from December to June and southward from June to December.

Along the east coast, the warm Agulhas Current brings nutrient - poor, tropical waters southward from the equatorial Indian Ocean.

High air pressures in the Arctic decreased the east - west flow of the jet stream, while also increasing its tendency to blow from north to south and draw cold air southward from the Arctic.

An easy walk through bushland finds you on a 6 km stretch of pristine beach running southward from the Byron Lighthouse.

The coastal plains of northern Zululand extend 250 kilometers southward from the Maputo River floodplain to Lake St Lucia.

The little - known secret that most tourists don't know about and that many travelers like to keep to themselves is that fact that most of the best Caribbean Islands to visit are not those found in that linear line of islands stretching southward from Florida's southern tip, but rather are found hundreds of miles away, dotting -LSB-...]

Six Rivers National Forest stretches east of Redwood State and National Parks in northwestern California, and reaches southward from the Oregon border for about 140 miles.

The New Madrid Fault line is a 150 - mile fault system that extends southward from Cairo, Illinois into Arkansas.

Snowbirds, those who flee southward from colder climates, attempt to avoid snow.

Highway 65 runs southward from Branson to Harrison, Arkansas, where downtown's tranquil, tree - lined square has a poignant memorial to the 140 hopefuls who left in 1857 en route for California.

Nuclear engineer Shih - Yew Chen of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois says he's «not at all surprised» that iodine - 131 is showing up in Tokyo's water because if the wind blows southward from the plant, it could carry radiation that far.

We have learnt in school that, in autumn, geese migrate southward from the ice - cold North and pass through Denmark on their way to wintering sites in, among other countries, the Netherlands and Belgium.

So researchers are anxious to find out whether the stress transferred southward from the 9 has accelerated slow slip on the fault and thus defused the threat of a quake.

On the day after Christmas in 1889 the» Vincennes,» «Peacock,» «Porpoise,» and «Flying Fish» headed southward from Sydney and, falling in with the land in latitude 64 degrees south and longitude 158 degrees East of Greenwich, on the 16th of January following, skirted the border of a new continent to the westward as far as longitude 97 degrees East of Greenwich.

Well, you have the Pamirs, which are broad valleys flanked by mountains extending southward from Russia to Pakistan's borders.

A growing plume of contaminated water stretches southward from the company's World War II - era manufacturing site in Bethpage.

In the first place, the Strait of Gibraltar separates the Iberian Peninsula and north Africa by only a few miles, so it is a logical assumption that chiles would filter southward from Cadiz to Tangier by at least the early 1500s.

Suppose the Barr family sets out on a trip southward from their home in Delaware» and, while hearing a brief introductory lecture on the proper meaning of randomness, the children start writing down the state of each passing license plate.

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

Not exact matches

«The Lord said to Abram: «Lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; for all the land which you see I will give to you and your descendants forever.

Islam expanded southward through the activities of Muslims from India until it reached Natal and Cape Province and spread a little into the Transvaal and Rhodesia.

There are too many people, as in the southward - moving Sahara Desert, who are now starving, and many others are so undernourished as to be not far from the edge of starvation.

An older brother of a girl I babysat approached me from behind, slid his hands on my shoulders, then southward.

And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: «Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are — northward, southward, eastward, and westward; for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.

Nor am I sure about South America, but I bet that from Mexico southward, most males are left alone.

Despite having his home district moved southward due to lawmakers» gerrymandering, he has retained broad support from residents of the region.

Now that they are not getting returns from the optimism they invested in Buhari, whose ill - health has largely distracted him from governance, the people have become forlorn and appear ready to re-invest the same optimism and support in the presidential aspiration of another of their own, not inclined to look southward.

The trail will start from the Outer Harbor trail on Fuhrmann Boulevard and continue southward, with the goal of ending at Woodlawn Beach Park in Hamburg.

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.

All told, as warm summers have reached farther down from the bottom of South America into the northernmost section of the Antarctic Peninsula, four ice shelves on the eastern side of the peninsula, including Larsen A, have collapsed in a striking pattern from the northern tip southward toward the Antarctic mainland.

The legendary limits of the Terra Australis of ancient and medieval cartographers, whose northerly coast was represented in art in the time of Ptolemy as extending eastward from Southern Africa toward China and inclosing the Indian Ocean, began to recede to the southward on the map of the world in the generation which produced Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan and disclosed America, the route to the Indies, and the circumnavigation of the globe.

This «bipolar seesaw behavior of the Atlantic Ocean,» as the paper calls it, led to a southward shift in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, which carried the monsoon rains away from sub-Saharan Africa and into the South African region.

By analyzing bison fossils from within the corridor region, the researchers were able track the movement of northern bison southward into the corridor and southern bison northward.

The multinational World Conservation Union, headquartered in Switzerland, is coordinating a project to create a massive transborder greenbelt that would eventually extend from the border of Russia and Finland southward through areas once obscured by the iron curtain: the old, rural East and West German border and parts of the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.

The view looks southward over cratered plains from high above the north pole of Enceladus.

The southward shift of the subtropical jet tends to cut off moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, which is needed to help fuel spring storms there.

The 49 - year - old middle school principal set out on Oct. 11 from Royalton, Minn., on a southward hike that would take him to Minneapolis and St. Paul on the fifth day of his journey.

With skyrocketing costs of higher education, in conjunction with an ever - escalating dropout rate, the focus is taking a southward bend from offline to online learning, and we have myriad online learning statistics and trends as a testament.

Stand on Hawk Hill during the southward migration's peak — from September 10 to October 10 — and you can expect to see from dozens to hundreds of birds of prey in an hour.

In the months of northers, (Nov, Dec) large «swims» of the black or mangrove snapper (Lutjanus griseus) average 1 to 3 lb) move from Chetumal Bay southward towards the reef.

A hurricane watch is now in effect for the Florida peninsula from Jupiter Inlet southward and around the peninsula to Bonita Beach, including the Florida Keys, Lake Okeechobee and Florida Bay, while the government of Cuba has extended its tropical storm warning to Villa Clara province.

In the eastern North Pacific, its range is from Humboldt Bay, California, to the Gulf of California, Mexico, most common from Point Conception southward.