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He had therefore prolonged the outward journey farther than was wise, and in addition, the caribou began their southward migration earlier than usual that year.
Kinematically, it is possible that antithetic normal faults facing southward could be reworked by thrusts.
Since the grave was usually orientated on an east-west axis, the face in both cases looked southward.
Just above the town, the river curves sharply southward to pass within 2 km of the center's western edge.
Moreover, both sequences young continuously southward with no repetition or change of younging direction.
Note the southward progression of magmatism and metamorphism possibly following a southward migrating magmatic arc.
Towards the north the folding is upright and broken by small-scale thrusting; in the south there is less thrusting and a more marked southward vergence.
A southward extension or displacement of the northern zones of semiaridity and aridity would devastate those areas accustomed to regular, heavy rainfall.
He also noticed that the stars one can see vary as one moves northward or southward.
The significant changes in the zircon age signal reflect many hundreds of kilometres of southward migration of the provenance.
The outcrop is more elongate than the former and although originally oval in plan, has been disrupted as fault movements have caused southward displacement of the western sector.
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