Sentence examples for eastward direction from inspiring English sources

As thrusting occurred in an eastward direction, huge granitic batholiths formed in what is now the Sierra Nevada range along the California-Nevada border.

While much of the bridge essentially fell in place, the southern section seemed to shift in an eastward direction about 50 feet, said Mark V. Rosenker, chairman of the safety board.

Since 2000, though, the axis has shifted in a distinctly eastward direction, toward the British Isles, at a rate of about seven inches a year, twice as fast as before.

The main stream then continues in a generally eastward direction to Ellsworth, bending north at Lindsborg and northeast at Salina; it then flows past Solomon and Abilene to join the Republican River at Junction City, after a course of 560 miles (900 km), to form the Kansas River.

Starting with Hawaii, Manifest Destiny took to the water, in the form of missionaries, trade, expeditionary forces and notions of decisive sea power advocated by Alfred Thayer Mahan, a naval theorist.By now, American expansionism began to resemble Europe's old-fashioned imperial empires, which it was fast approaching from an eastward direction.

To form Titan's dunes, Lorenz's team estimates that surface winds vary around an average eastward direction.

Positive values are in the poleward and eastward directions.

Short-periodic oscillations identified as gravity waves with periods between 2 and 8 h propagate in southward and eastward directions, but in opposite directions in some cases.

Magnetic field variations in geomagnetically northward and eastward directions are recorded in the first and second channels, respectively, while the 1 PPS signal generated by a GPS receiver is recorded in the third channel as a time standard.

On the basis of these studies, he realised that the intensity of cosmic rays coming from eastward directions might be different from that of westward ones.

Transport was only bidirectional in the Antarctic Peninsula region, although still generally stronger in the north-eastward direction for both species, and for C. gunnari larvae at South Georgia and Shag Rocks.