Sentence examples for seaward movement from inspiring English sources

That flow has been thought to ease the seaward movement of the ice over bedrock.

Such melting can speed the seaward movement of ice in the same way that removing a doorstop lets a door swing freely.

Probably the bulk of such contaminants, however, consists of water-borne residues of the millions of pounds of agricultural chemicals that have been leached out of the ground by rains to become part of the same seaward movement.

Larger size at the initiation of seaward movement likely provides yearling migrants with a survival advantage.

If this synchronization does not occur by spring or early summer; subyearlings tend to cease active migration, delay seaward movement and exhibit the yearling tactic (Connor et al. 2002, 2005).

As a consequence, fry in the extant spawning areas now emerge from the gravel later in the spring than their historic counterparts, juveniles grow more slowly and begin seaward movement on a later time schedule than had been observed for fish in the historical core spawning area (Krcma and Raleigh 1970; Connor et al. 2002; Connor and Burge 2003).

Therefore, an advantage existed for fall Chinook salmon juveniles to move seaward as subyearlings.

The estuary is restricted at its seaward end, enabling the tidal movements to prevent the accumulation of silt and so reduce the dredging costs of the Port of Liverpool.

"I was worried the air control would change the ball, or move it," Seaward said.

Pellew immediately turned seawards in an effort to escape the shore and signalled Reynolds to follow suit.

For example, artificial lighting has been shown to disrupt the nocturnal movements of sea turtle hatchlings to the ocean, as artificial light will attract them landward rather than seaward (Tuxbury and Salmon 2005).