Sentence examples for oceanward from inspiring English sources

Hinchinbrook and Montague islands are at its oceanward entrance.

As the basin expands, the leading edge of the overlying plate may be forced oceanward, causing the trench to "roll back" over the subducting plate, or it may serve as a "sea anchor" by remaining fixed in place relative to the top of the subducting plate.

On the river's surface, a vast field of broken ice, all white (ice slabs), dark brown (water), and light brown (ice slabs underwater), in a pattern of splendid randomness like winter camouflage, proceeded slowly oceanward.

As the dense slab collapses into the asthenosphere, however, it also may "roll back" oceanward and cause extension in the overlying plate.

Caspar David Friedrich once painted a similar seascape, with a monk gazing oceanward and contemplating the infinite.

Oceanward of trenches the seafloor is usually bulged upward in an outer ridge or rise of up to 1,000 metres (about 3,300 feet) in relief.