drift

It is proposed that the drift of the continents was vectored by westward forces.

No, I roll Fast and Furious. Tokyo drift style.

- How's that Con Drift Class of yours going? -Fine.

Continental drift caused Antarctica to move apart from the landmass of South America and to drift into the Southern Polar Region.

Sun clocks worked, of course, only on clear days; water clocks misbehaved when the temperature fell toward freezing, to say nothing of long-run drift as the result of sedimentation and clogging.

Earth's internal heat, fueled by radioactivity, provides the energy for plate tectonics and continental drift, mountain building, and earthquakes.

The heterogeneous material of the drift (sand, clay, and rocks deposited there) convinced him of its glacial origin.

It was also apparent that the glaciation occurred in the relatively recent past because the drift was soft, like freshly deposited sediment.

We now know the age of the glaciation accurately from radiometric dating of the carbon-14 in logs buried in the drift.

The drift of the last glaciation was deposited during one of the most recent epochs of geologic time, the Pleistocene, which lasted from 1.8 million to 10,000 years ago.

Along the east coast of the United States, the southernmost advance of this ice is recorded by the enormous sand and drift deposits of the terminal moraines that form Long Island and Cape Cod.

As geologists mapped glacial deposits in the late nineteenth century, they became aware that there were several layers of drift, the lower ones corresponding to earlier ice ages.

From this analysis of marine sediments, geologists have learned that there were many shorter, more regular cycles of glaciation and deglaciation than geologists had recognized from the glacial drift of the continents alone.

The waves became rougher as they drifted.

We drifted up the river.

Plants with large, buoyant seeds—like coconuts—drift on ocean currents and are washed up on the shores.

They has the directionless drift in their lives.

I can follow the drift of the conversation.

Grace was beginning to get his drift.

The drift are moving towards the cities.

There are a drift of cattle on the grassland.

As rural factories shed labour, people drift towards the cities.

My mind started to drift.

The snow, except where it drifted, was only calf-deep.

There is a general sense that the country and economy alike are drifting.

You've been drifting from job to job without any real commitment.

The balloon drifted silently over the countryside.

Cool summer dance sounds are drifting from the stereo indoors.

The tide drifted them down again.