Sentence examples for northwestern direction from inspiring English sources

Their wave fronts were almost in an exactly zonal direction and the western edge of the wave fronts stretched in the northwestern direction.

Furthermore, several stations in the southern part of the island (e.g., ARIG, SBTG) detected PPR anomalies in the northwestern direction with high elevation angles.

Bowie Seamount lies on the Pacific Plate, a large segment of the Earth's surface which moves in a northwestern direction under the Pacific Ocean.

Route 4 heads in a northwestern direction as a four-lane divided highway, crossing West Allenton Road at an at-grade intersection with a traffic signal after approximately 0.5 mile.

The islands are volcanically-derived, and form successively as the Pacific Plate moves in a northwestern direction over a fixed "hot spot", such that the eight current high islands (The Main Hawaiian Islands) at the southeastern end of the chain represent only the last 5.1 million years (my) of a 75 80 my history of volcanic activity [ 3].

Otherwise the greatest intensity of the ionospheric response would be observed in the northern and northwestern sectors from epicenter, i.e. where the direction of the propagation of the ionospheric perturbation coincided with the direction of the magnetic field lines.

Towards the northwestern corner of the model area, in the direction of the Eifel plume (Seiberlich et al. 2013), the 460 °C isotherm rises to up to 19,500 m bsl.

Terrorism experts said a power struggle within the Pakistani Taliban could give Al Qaeda, which is also based in northwestern Pakistan, a greater role in shaping the group's direction.

Anomaly B was also contiguous to the northwestern part, and its strike appeared to change to the NE SW direction in the northern area of the Izu Peninsula.

South Florida went the other direction by stumbling to an overtime loss to Notre Dame, and the Northwestern faithful are all but catatonic after the Wildcats squandered their latest opportunity to join the N.C.A.A. field.

River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland, rising in northwestern County Cavan and flowing for about 161 miles (259 km) in a southerly direction to enter the Atlantic Ocean via a 70-mile (113-kilometre) estuary below Limerick city.