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  • The air in this bulge then slides over the unexpanded air over the sea resulting in a pressure difference at sea level between the landward and seaward sides of the coast.
  • The side of Kilauea is constantly moving, generally slipping seaward at a rate of about 3 inches a year.
  • With superb boatmanship he threaded the narrow, tortuous channel which no craft larger than a whaleboat could negotiate, until the shoals and patches showed seaward and they grounded on the quiet, rippling beach. A SON OF THE SUN
  • Nearshore, the seaward flanks, in the lee of a SSW-directed alongshore flow, are steeper.
  • One of the men positioned the prow of the boat against the seaward ice, revved the engines, and widened the gap to six feet.
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  • To the seaward, that is from the smaller harbour westwards, Sebastopol and its approaches were thoroughly fortified. A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
  • There are some wonderful pinnacles in both groups, with the best diving and healthiest coral to be found on the seaward side of each.
  • The light is of the 4th order dioptric, showing a red arc of 270° to seaward, and a white arc of 90°, visible inside the breakwater and to the southward towards Alligator Creek. Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890-91
  • I caught glimpses of a number of poor, low houses straggling along the bank of the Terek, which flowed seaward in an ever-widening stream; farther off rose the dark-blue, jagged wall of the mountains, behind which Mount Kazbek gazed forth in his highpriest's hat of white. A Hero of Our Time
  • Seaward of Ward Hunt Island, they did not report any basement ice: Outer part of Ward Hunt ice shelf consists of a 15-18 m thick platform of sea ice conformably overlain by approximately 25 m of iced firn and interstratified lake ice. Ward Hunt Ice Shelf Stratigraphy « Climate Audit
  • A barge was about a hundred yards away, waiting to return seaward.
  • India proposes a seaward median / equidistant line approach for determining the maritime boundary.
  • Seaward of the road, the grassy slopes end abruptly in rugged cliffs pounded by waves.
  • Thickets of mixed microphyllous and broad-leaved woodland subject to salt spray and wind occur on seaward-facing dune slopes (Eugenia, Brachylaena, Euclea, Diosporos and Mimusops species). Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa
  • According to the people of the upper river the Fán were expelled by the Bati or Batti -- not "Bari" as it has been written-from their ancient seats; and they are still pushing them seawards. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1
  • His eyes drop, and he drifts with the wild ice ticking seaward down the Hudson, like the blank sides of a jigsaw puzzle.
  • A barge was about a hundred yards away, waiting to return seaward.
  • He flew into a severe storm, his balloon was wrecked, and he plummeted seaward from the sky.
  • He flew into a severe storm, his balloon was wrecked, and he plummeted seaward from the sky.
  • A seeker of hope in silence as me, climbed the mountain and looked seaward everyday.
  • Behind him a rip flows out to sea from the shoreline, a swath of muddy rippled water filled with black sand churned up by its powerful seaward pull.
  • Enter the water at its seaward end, drop down and follow the gully out to sea.
  • Bank reefs are considered unique due to the presence of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata), coral zonation by depth, and seawardly oriented spur-and-groove formations. Coral reefs in Florida
  • the sailor looked seaward
  • When the Jubilee River was being planned, the design documents stated that flood relief schemes should always be started at the seaward end.
  • Then only the distant rumble of the Elevated Railroad could be heard occasionally, or the far, seaward whistle of some steamer, or the scrape and screak of a street-car. The Rich Little Poor Boy
  • The Greeks seeing they were outnumbered hauled in their sail and began to turn the prow of their craft seaward.
  • Three steam tugs were manoeuvring just to seaward of the ship. THE MAIN CAGES
  • The Capricorn Corsair drove through the smooth harbour water before the steady easterly that flowed seaward on summer nights.
  • The ballroom's lofty wood-panelled ceiling and tall seaward windows evoke another more gracious age.
  • from the hill he took a seaward course
  • Sites were protected from the largest ocean swells by either small offshore islands or large seaward rock benches.
  • It faced seawards to the north.
  • To further add to the jetty's lore a fire broke out in December 1999, destroying a massive 80m section, about 150m from the seaward end.
  • Every ebb leaves a sandy flat, extending half a mile seaward from the town; the reefy anchorage is difficult of entrance after sunset, and the coralline bottom renders wading painful. First footsteps in East Africa
  • The majority headed seaward; but others were content to continue feeding half a mile distant.
  • Just then some one looked seaward, and there they see ships coming from the south round the Ness, and they were not fewer than ten, and they row hard and steer thitherwards. The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
  • On the seaward side is a large lawn with a suntrap patio and six-person hot tub. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ethiopia, [Southern Africa,] close adjoining to which is a small island, called _Conie island_, [Dassen island] all low land, and bordered by many dangerous rocks to seawards. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
  • Foot and archers on their left kept the Turkish mounted bowmen out of range of the cavalry and guarded the baggage on the seaward right.
  • Wood - decked, rounded balconies jut seawards as on a cruise ship.
  • The mangroves never cease building, ever creeping seaward.
  • I sent Lieutenants Amir and Yusuf to prospect certain stone-heaps which lay seawards of the graves; and they found a little heptangular demi-lune, concave to the north; the curtains varying from a minimum length of ten to a maximum of eighty me'tres, and the thickness averaging two metres, seventy-five centimetres. The Land of Midian — Volume 1
  • Lower densities of common eiders were observed seaward of the barrier islands up to 50 km from shore.
  • Many productive commercial fishing areas depend on phytoplankton nurtured by the seaward flow of clearer water, which in turn nurtures the fish.
  • Each floor has an oblong chamber with a small room and spiral stair in the wall thickness at the seaward end.
  • For A $160, the five crew would take them for three dives on the ribbon reefs, a stack of broad shoals that run along the seaward ramparts of the Barrier Reef, 40 miles offshore.
  • Each floor has an oblong chamber with a small room and spiral stair in the wall thickness at the seaward end.
  • Right before this towne from the seaward is a banke of mouing sand, which gathereth and increaseth with the Western winds, in such sort, that, according to an olde prophesie among them, this banke is like to swallow vp and ouerwhelme the towne: for euery yere it increaseth and eateth vp many gardens, although they vse all policy to diminish the same, and to make it firme ground. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • The sea became covered in the masses of snow blown seaward from the land by the gale; then the violence of the gale abated so that on February as we left our companions on the bleak shores of Cape Royds and steered for sunny New Zealand. With Shackleton to the Antarctic
  • With no natural protection from the sea, apart from a narrow coral reef, the atoll was at the mercy of massive waves that crashed over its 30-metre high seaward cliffs.
  • The borehole is located onshore NW Wales, a few kilometres seaward of the surface trace of the Mochras fault.
  • Each floor has an oblong chamber with a small room and spiral stair in the wall thickness at the seaward end.
  • The dive is good at any state of the tide, but be cautious of the stronger north-east/south-west currents on the seaward side of the reef during periods of spring tides - either stay inshore or time your dive for slack water.
  • Except at its seaward end where the soldiers stood, Southdown Road was almost deserted. LOHENGRIN
  • To seaward, bright tropical fish dance in the coral reefs.
  • Later she saw the plane fire steep at the clouds, wheel seawards as it climbed, and diminish in sky. COUP D'ETAT
  • That very accessibility from seaward, which is her weak point in war time, is her strength in time of peace. Border and Bastille
  • They ventured seawards only after 1000, when the Saracen threat had passed.
  • These formations are commonly the seaward part of coastal swamplands that eventually develop into deep peat formations.
  • on the seaward side of the road
  • _Shaab-al-Yadayn_, it is to be noted that it is a great shelf far to seaward of the northern end of the great bay, all of it above water, like two extended arms with their hands wide open, whence its Arabic name which signifies _shelf of the hands_. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
  • But three days later, as a result of a massive land-slip which took place in four stages, the lawn had disappeared and the ground had collapsed under the whole of the seaward wing of the hotel.
  • Yet the ballroom's lofty wood-panelled ceiling and tall seaward windows, along with an adjoining dining hall and arcaded veranda, do evoke another more gracious age.
  • Back in open water and heading seawards, you can return to the boat through the tunnel or swim out a bit further and through the large arch.
  • The loading into the aft hold, number four, was going well so he crossed the deck to the seaward side to check on the problem of the day. LET NOT THE DEEP
  • If you choose to follow the reef seaward, pick a slack-water period and ensure that you have a good compass bearing for your return, and enough air.
  • This formation has been interpreted to represent deposits that accumulated on or immediately seaward of an Early Cambrian shelf.
  • The largest rock, Big Black Carr, can be seen at the seaward extremity of St Abbs Bay, as you look out from the harbour mouth.
  • Similarly, the seaward boundary was defined as 10 km offshore, with exceptions based on specific circumstances.
  • The Algerian Admiral Ochiali outmanoeuvring the Genoese Admiral Doria, swept in from seaward with his fleet of sixty galleys and thirty galliots.
  • No sooner said than done; nor was I long under the bield of a hillock before she appeared at the inn door, looked here and there, and (seeing nobody) set out by a path that led directly seaward, and by which I followed her. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
  • In the winter, the winds reverse and blow in a seaward direction, which is the reason why Indian winters are so dry.
  • Beyond the bank on the seaward side is a yard or two of level ground.
  • Large shoals of pollack are often found gathered at the seaward end of the bay.
  • Currently, oil and gas development seaward of the continental shelf is unlikely.
  • Lieutenants Amir and Yusuf to prospect certain stone-heaps which lay seawards of the graves; and they found a little heptangular demi-lune, concave to the north; the curtains varying from a minimum length of ten to a maximum of eighty me’tres, and the thickness averaging two metres, seventy-five centimetres. The Land of Midian
  • The sediments that produced the beds were deposited in moderately deep waters located a hundred meters seaward of the escarpment.
  • He was on the Thames headed seaward in company with two ponies and a business of ferrets.
  • Her gaze was fixed seawards.
  • These layers extend seaward into the submerged Continental Shelf and are overlain by deposits of both Continental and Marine origins (Upper Cretaceous Age) dating from 135-65 million years before the present. Beachwood Borough Master Plan, Part IV « Beachwood Historical Alliance
  • A large white bird appeared low over the seaward shrubby trees.
  • The periodic landward and seaward movement of the shore across the coastal plain can be seen in the landforms of the ACE Basin such as relict dune ridges and marsh plains. Ashepoo-Combahee-Edisto (ACE) Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina
  • The tug was seaward of the Hakai Passage on a course that diverged from the Calvert Island coastline.
  • The night came on, and the light on Cape Roca was identified by Perth, at four bells; but a fog set in from seaward, and he decided that it was not prudent to take to the boats under such circumstances, for the reason that the boat compasses were in the cabin, and could not be obtained. Down the Rhine Young America in Germany
  • Many of these will be one kilometre inland or seawards from the main road, generally away from the tourist areas associated with the eastern coastline.
  • She had sailed with him before on few previous schemes, on voyages soulwise or seawards.
  • Reefs off the north and north-east beaches are seawardly sloping reef platforms without reef crests, and are not typical fringing reefs. Henderson Island, United Kingdom
  • We race just feet above the flat wet sand before he pulls on the controls and we climb steeply and bank seawards to come round for our landing.
  • The distributary channels and alluvial fans at the mouths of the Flinders, Mitchell, Gilbert, Leichardt, McArthur, and Roper Rivers have extended the seaward edge of the plains. Carpentaria tropical savanna
  • Shields "to see some women," they would probably have gone down to their graves, seawards or landwards, under the pleasing illusion that the ganger was a man of like indulgent passions with themselves. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
  • This was the battle -- to win seaward against the Creep of the shoreward hastening sea. CHAPTER VI
  • Submarines ranged offshore to guard against unexpected seawards attacks, backing up patrolling destroyers and torpedo boats.
  • The coastal villages where the salt makers lived stand on islands or peninsulas of firm ground, with marshes and fens on their inland side and salt marshes on the seaward.
  • Melting glaciers add fresh water to the oceans and speed the seaward movement of ice and an influx of fresh water into the ocean.
  • The application before the council proposes a new harbour basin to the seaward side of the existing harbour which would include a berthing quay.
  • Fin seawards from here in a clockwise fashion, keeping the wall on your right.
  • This is succeeded by plane-bedded sands dipping gently seaward, which are produced by the swash and backwash of the waves on the beach face.
  • Here and there, behind the trees, I caught glimpses of a number of poor, low houses straggling along the bank of the Terek, which flowed seaward in an ever-widening stream; farther off rose the dark-blue, jagged wall of the mountains, behind which Mount Kazbek gazed forth in his high-priest's hat of white. A Hero of Our Time
  • Here and there, behind the trees, I caught glimpses of a number of poor, low houses straggling along the bank of the Terek, which flowed seaward in an ever-widening stream; farther off rose the dark-blue, jagged wall of the mountains, behind which Mount Kazbek gazed forth in his high-priest’s hat of white. A Hero of Our Time
  • When returning from seaward (proceeding in the conventional direction of buoyage) keep red buoys or daymarks on your starboard (right) side as you pass them and green buoys on your port (left) side. Sailing Fundamentals
  • A typical zonation pattern includes back reef or reef flat, reef crest or algal ridge, and seaward slope or fore-reef. Coral reef zonation
  • The cross-bedded sediments correspond to shoal deposits that developed on top of and seaward of the spit-platform.
  • Blue crab megalopae were concentrated at the surface immediately seaward of the front.
  • There was another day of successful dredging, and, about four o'clock, while several men were still out on the ice, whirlies with great columns of drift came steadily down the glacier, pouring over the seaward cliffs. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
  • Furthermore, during the same period, council resolved to proceed with the separation of the seaward portion of the jetty from the inshore portion.
  • Within the distributary channel the relatively static nature of the saline wedge inhibits seaward bedload transport.
  • (He turns to the harbor and calls seaward) Ho there, boatman! Caesar and Cleopatra
  • These locations are designated by their distance in kilometers seaward of the dam that marks the upper boundary of tidal influence.
  • When we made the passage (bound, although yet we knew it not, for Silverado) the steamer jumped, and the black buoys were dancing in the jabble; the ocean breeze blew killing chill; and, although the upper sky was still unflecked with vapour, the sea fogs were pouring in from seaward, over the hilltops of Marin county, in one great, shapeless, silver cloud. The Silverado Squatters
  • They're the major cause of the 12 000 official rescues each year and probably drag seaward on the order of 25 000 unwilling bathers annually.
  • The second area is between Christmas Rock and Gxulu River Mouth extending three nautical miles seawards from the high-water mark.
  • The flood-plume pushed seawards by the river-flow also brings its warmth to the far northern Benguela current area.
  • The resort has 75 luxury rooms and suites, most of which enjoy westerly, seaward aspects.
  • Wave erosion drives the sea cliff landward creating a planar, gently seaward-dipping bedrock platform.
  • With the shoreline coming to a point, currents from both the north and south converge and flow seaward resulting in clear water and a concentration of nutrients to initiate an abundant food chain.
  • The coastal villages where the salt makers lived stand on islands or peninsulas of firm ground, with marshes and fens on their inland side and salt marshes on the seaward.
  • She began by replacing the small seaward window with a bigger one to better enjoy the splendid view of the Golfo di Salerno.
  • Her gaze was fixed seawards.
  • Anchorage usually develops in the Southwest seaward slope.
  • Yet the ballroom's lofty wood-panelled ceiling and tall seaward windows, along with an adjoining dining hall and arcaded veranda, do evoke another more gracious age.
  • This is succeeded by plane-bedded sands dipping gently seaward, which are produced by the swash and backwash of the waves on the beach face.
  • Not all the golden sand washed seaward from Oriental Bay is worth the price you pay.
  • In contrast, at high tide, the steep shingle beach produces plunging breakers against the berm causing the seaward movement of material.
  • This old granite house has, as the French say, its feet in the water, which seems to lap against the wide seaward windows.
  • And how could a fire start there, at the seaward end?
  • This was the battle -- to win seaward against the Creep of the shoreward hastening sea. CHAPTER VI
  • So startled was I by the frightful vision that for a moment I froze until a sudden plunge of the ship almost tumbled me seaward. STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
  • 'Thereupon, so soon as ocean may be trusted, and the winds leave the seas in quiet, and the soft whispering south wind calls seaward, my comrades launch their ships and crowd the shores. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • A barge was about a hundred yards away, waiting to return seaward.
  • He was about thirty-five, the heartiest laugher that ever strained a rib in merriment, a genial, kindly man, with a keen, seawardly blue eye, weather-coloured face, short whiskers, and rising in his socks to near six feet. The Honour of the Flag
  • Those are the reef spurs that point seaward, holding coral heads below the surface.
  • In recent reports, the Army Corps of Engineers has determined that the seawall is between 150 and 200 feet too far seaward.
  • _Shaab-al-Yadayn_, it is to be noted that it is a great shelf far to seaward of the northern end of the great bay, all of it above water, like two extended arms with their hands wide open, whence its Arabic name which signifies _shelf of the hands_. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
  • The lateral migration of spits from coastal headlands produces a new coastline seaward of the original mainland coastline.
  • The path levels out to provide expansive seaward views.
  • The muddy terrain seaward of the wreck is fertile ground for scallops, dragonets and some of the biggest long-clawed squat lobsters I have seen.
  • Right before this towne from the seaward is a banke of mouing sand, which gathereth and increaseth with the The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III
  • Inland movements occurred in the first part of the night whereas seaward movements occurred late at night.
  • I glanced seawards to see dark shapes cruising in from the limit of visibility - four 2m long amberjack were scouring the area, foraging for their next meal.
  • Except at its seaward end where the soldiers stood, Southdown Road was almost deserted. LOHENGRIN
  • Except at its seaward end where the soldiers stood, Southdown Road was almost deserted. LOHENGRIN
  • The dome of the great Church he regarded man's best effort at construction, beyond which there was nothing more attainable; but how it dwindled and faded when from the wall he looked at the sky, the sea, and the land, the handiworks of God! On the wall, at a point marked by a shallow angle, there was a cracked stone bench, offering seawardly a view of the Isles of the Princes, and the Asian domain beyond Broussa to the Olympian heights; westwardly, the The Prince of India — Volume 01
  • Although most of the areas large glaciers now flow seaward more quickly, ice upstream at higher elevations has sped up only modestly, if at all.
  • It pattered hard against the seaward windows of the hotel and swept into the horde of steam launches that buffeted with the rather boisterous sea.
  • The upper plate moves seaward, and a massive tsunami can be produced along with catastrophic destruction from earthquake shaking.
  • The seaward wall, only a screen looking out on the reef, allowed a fresh breeze and the sound of the waves to be our constant companions, lulling us to sleep.
  • They were close enough to have heard, but ignored him they turned away and lay on their boards, stroking seaward. Bad Dad
  • The seaward pull of receding waves after they break on a shore.
  • The path levels out to provide expansive seaward views.
  • Although the students were in no immediate danger, a resident was very alarmed at seeing them walking seawards.
  • Telescopes, binoculars, cameras and naked eyes all strained seawards to catch a glimpse of these huge creatures that had invaded the Cornish coast.

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