Sentence examples for seaward portion from inspiring English sources
Figure 2 Bathymetry and seaward portion of the seismic survey.
In the seaward portion, it crosses the shelf and enters the deep sea.
The mantle wedge is isoviscous, with its most seaward portion (overlying the portion of the slab that is shallower than 50 km) assigned a no-flow condition.
Almost all the extensional earthquakes with a trench-parallel P-axis occur in the seaward portion of the collision-subduction system, east of approximately 100° E for the Sumatra subduction system and east of approximately 126° E for the Ryukyu subduction system (red bars in Figure 1c,d).
Arthrophycus trails (those made by annelids tolerant of low salinity) are recorded in the more seaward portions of the Tuscarora Sandstone.
The inundation limit covers a small portion of the seaward section of the transect, in which the seaward end was set 410 m inland of the coastline and 7 m in elevation.
Large earthquakes with Mw ~ 7.2 7.9 are relatively common along the down-dip portion of the megathrust seaward of Miyagi prefecture (e.g., Kanamori et al., 2006; Umino et al., 2006; Kimura et al., 2010).
The OCS is that portion of the U.S. continental shelf lying seaward of State territorial waters and within the U.S. exclusive economic zone.
On the Belize portion of the MBRS, sedimentation generally decreases seaward throughout most of the year as sediment-laden terrestrial runoff becomes diluted by open-ocean seawater containing less sediment [58].
12 Coastal ice shelves (portions of the ice sheet that hang out over the oceans) buttress the seaward flow of ice from the continent, but geological history suggests a drastic change is possible.
