1 The road went northwestwards over the hills.

2 He pointed his boat northwestwards.

3 He pointed his boat northwestward.

4 The flow rotates from uniformly northwestwards to northwards close to the poleward edge of the cusp.

5 Three model typhoon tracks, westerly, northerly and turning northwestward arc selected.

6 The stress field from large scale of mantle convection is consistent with the southeastward rift of the Eurasian plate and the northwestward spread of the Pacific plate.

7 The force source of current tectonic stress field comes mainly from the westward and northwestward horizontal extrusions from the Pacific and Philippine Plates respectively to the Eurasian Plate.

8 The upper structure layer is composed of the Cretaceous to the Quaternary, which shows a large slope dipping northwestward.

9 Qaidamu basin is one of the most impotent oil and gas bearing basins in China northwestward.

10 The Tonglushan Cu-Fe deposit is located at the middle part of the Neocathaysian compound mole track and the northwestward of the Yangxin complex massif.

11 Zhenlai irrigation area is located at the Songnen plain on the west bank of Nenjiang river in the northwestward of Jilin province.

12 The larger structure is the Salton Trough, a depression that stretches from the Gulf of California, through the modern Colorado River Delta, and northwestward into California as far as the Salton Sea.

13 The surface wind driven currents at the center of the lake mostly meander and northwestward flow. There exist eddies at a side of the strong meander.