How To Use continental shelf In A Sentence
- Lowered sea levels exposed the shallow continental shelf beneath the Bering Sea.
- For example, many shorefaces - the dynamic zones between the continental shelf and the beach - are not simply surfaces of sand but rather are underlain by rock or mud.
- Around Britain a series of deep seismic traverses has revealed many of the structures produced during the Caledonian orogeny and other earth movements that are continued out over the continental shelf.
- Those that routinely forage on the continental shelf rarely strand. Times, Sunday Times
- The seas are always big where the Atlantic meets the shallows of the continental shelf. Times, Sunday Times
- Discussing unusually large catches of red steenbras at this time, it was mentioned this was attributable to lack of current along the continental shelf.
- The islands are perched at the ragged edge of the continental shelf, right before it plunges more than 2 miles down to the abyssal plain.
- He went on to relate how only four months later, in August 1958, the Netherlands sent an aide memoire to the British proposing that the division of the territorial seas and continental shelf should be defined in accordance with this principle of equidistance.
- Because Australia has a broad continental shelf it lobbied to have this zone extend to the outer edge of the margin.
- The government has announced the opening of the first tender for exploration on its continental shelf.
