drifting

If she was right, the valley might be a rift where molten material came up from below, forming new crust and pushing the ocean floor apart — evidence that could support continental drift.

Holmes admitted he had no data to back up the idea, and the geology community remained largely unconvinced of continental drift.

The move highlights the increasing dominance of conservative punditry at a network that positioned itself at its founding as a “fair and balanced” alternative to what it saw as a liberal drift in other media.

Because wind can build drifts of deep snow over holes, effectively hiding them from view, using a pole as a probe to detect divots can be a lifesaver in deep and uneven snowpack.

Residents continue to complain of drift from aerial spraying and heavy sediment pollution into Nehalem Bay, home to clams, Dungeness crab and runs of chinook and coho salmon.

Strong currents and winds, however, mean any debris could be drifting up to 31 miles a day eastward, away from the impact zone.

It may also have left them somewhat untethered, drifting in between their own lives and the eternal mysteries.

In this valley so far away from Syria, questions loom like mist drifting off the Caucasus.

Tokyo Bay is “a black expanse where gulls wheeled above drifting shoals of white Styrofoam.”

The life of the club owner was something Leonard left behind, the noise and violence drifting into lore.

Something came up between me and Lyn—and I drifted, and kept drifting.

To-morrow—a crippled veteran, and after that a pensioner drifting fast into a garrulous dotage.

As there was not now a breath of wind, we were entirely at the mercy of the stream, and began drifting back.

A sheet of rain came drifting across the lake toward the hillock on which the house stood.

We were now drifting to the South by East through a wide channel, sounding in between fifty and sixty fathoms, rocky bottom.