Sentence examples for ridge away from from inspiring English sources

As the magnetized crust moves down the flanks of a ridge away from the spreading centre, it remains permanently magnetized and "carries" the magnetic anomalies along with it.

In Paktia Province in eastern Afghanistan, 2,000 local leaders gathered in a district just a ridge away from the Pakistan border to endorse the recommendations of a peace conference held last week in Kabul.

IN THE hamlet of Ogama, a scattering of traditional wooden houses in a steep-sided valley just a ridge away from the Sea of Japan, the forest is claiming back land that had been cleared generations ago for rice and vegetables.

If you follow those ridges away from the stone circle, and continue down the Stonehenge Avenue, you eventually reach the River Avon.

When the heat from the fire, still an entire ridge away, became too much I jumped back in the cab.

As the limb bud grows, the ridge moves away from the cells at its base, which receive fewer growth factors.

Standing on ridges miles away from the Rim fire, John Buckley has traced the path of the huge Sierra Nevada blaze by watching fire clouds billowing above the Stanislaus National Forest.

From the summit of Sgùrr Mòr, we follow a ridge that curves away from the nape of its neck, towards the neighbouring peak.

It is generally held that the Earth's crust consists of 6, or possibly even 10, large plates of lithospheric material constantly moving with respect to each other; they are thought to be created from the asthenosphere at one edge, the ocean ridges, and to move away from these ridges to be reabsorbed back into the asthenosphere at the other edge, the ocean trenches.

1960 American geophysicist Harry H. Hess developed the idea that oceanic crust forms along mid-ocean ridges and spreads out laterally away from the ridges.

"I was worried we were getting too close to an undersea ridge and had turned away from our monitor.