How To Use Continental shelf In A Sentence
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Lowered sea levels exposed the shallow continental shelf beneath the Bering Sea.
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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.
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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.
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Those that routinely forage on the continental shelf rarely strand.
Times, Sunday Times
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The seas are always big where the Atlantic meets the shallows of the continental shelf.
Times, Sunday Times
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Discussing unusually large catches of red steenbras at this time, it was mentioned this was attributable to lack of current along the continental shelf.
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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.
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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.
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Because Australia has a broad continental shelf it lobbied to have this zone extend to the outer edge of the margin.
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The government has announced the opening of the first tender for exploration on its continental shelf.
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The southern component spreads over the continental shelf.
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The drum family consists primarily of oceanic continental shelf fishes.
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The most important aspect of the New Jersey research for the Navy is the effects on the acoustics of shallow-water continental shelf environments of surficial stratigraphic development and preservation.
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Most species of marine organism live on the continental shelf.
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Bearded seals and walrus, feed in relatively shallow waters and rely on benthic prey associated with continental shelf areas and rely on annual sea ice for pupping.
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Their preferred habitat is the annual sea ice over the continental shelf and inter-island archipelagos that encircle the polar basin.
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The seas are always big where the Atlantic meets the shallows of the continental shelf.
Times, Sunday Times
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The neritic zone is the first 200 meters of ocean water, which includes the seashore and most of the continental shelf.
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The seminar of the removal and disposal of obsolete offshore installations and structures in the excursive economic zone and continental shelf was held in sept 1995 at Bangkok.
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Maritime Claims: Territorial sea to 200 nautical miles and the continental shelf, 100 nautical miles from 2,500-meter isobath
Ecuador
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Those that routinely forage on the continental shelf rarely strand.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are most commonly found over upwellings or the continental shelf, rarely close to shore.
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Accordingly it might well be held to mark the boundary of Australia's continental shelf.
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The continental shelf is the area extending from the coast to the shelf break, which is usually defined by the 200 meter depth isobath.
Coastal zone
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Fathometer soundings showed it was on a steep upward slope of the continental shelf.
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
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Lowered sea levels exposed the shallow continental shelf beneath the Bering Sea.
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Those that routinely forage on the continental shelf rarely strand.
Times, Sunday Times
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IMHO the current wordage is testing the waters of international opinion to see if it can get a cut from the likely large amount of petroleum sitting in that part of the continental shelf.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war?
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Currently, oil and gas development seaward of the continental shelf is unlikely.
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Sovereignty over natural resources on the continental shelf, ownership of all coastal States, but in the adjacent coastal States and the relative, the existence of specific delimitation.
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Territorial claims outside that are up for grabs, provided a country can show that its continental shelf extends farther along the seabed.
Times, Sunday Times
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These layers extend seaward into the submerged Continental Shelf and are overlain by deposits of both Continental and Marine origins (Upper Cretaceous Age) dating from 135-65 million years before the present.
Beachwood Borough Master Plan, Part IV « Beachwood Historical Alliance
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The geological evidence that Lomonosov Ridge is part of the Russian continental shelf is not an easy question We can say that this is not just a ridge, but part of a whole system from Russia to Greenland and Canada The Arctic is a shallow epicontinental sea on a continental base.
The Arctic Oil Rush
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Talisei, Bangka and Lembeh are all on the continental shelf, but the marine park's five islands jut from abyssal depths, and the diving is appropriately dramatic.
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They are nearshore only where the continental shelf is narrow.
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The submarine extension of a continent is called the continental shelf.
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When at sea, they concentrate over the continental shelf or over upwellings of cold, nutrient-rich water.
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In recent years, submerged diamondiferous deposits, of mostly latest Quaternary age, lying on the continental shelf off the West Coast of southern Africa have attracted a great deal of economic and geological interest.
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The submarine extension of a continent is called the continental shelf.
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We fished when we needed food, swam, snorkelled and dived off the edge of the Continental Shelf and relished in the crystal clear, warm waters of the Indian Ocean - an ocean so blue it dazzled the eyesight.
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The area to the West of the Shetland Islands is the last major area of the UK Continental Shelf to be developed and infrastructure will be critical to fully unlocking the gas potential of the region.
New Statesman
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Scanning the area with invisible eyes, the figure finally dismissed its feelings as a mistaken judgement, before swimming on into the murky deeps off the ocean's continental shelf.
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This force is doing more than securing Russian economic interests and its claims on the continental shelf.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or 100 nm from the 2,500-m deep isobath
Madagascar
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Benthic invertebrate macrofauna of the eastern Bering/Chukchi continental shelf.
Past variability in Arctic marine systems
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Other continental shelf regions may also be impacted where anthropogenic CO2-enriched water is being upwelled onto the shelf.
Climate Progress
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Ecuadorterritorial sea: 200 nm continental shelf: 100 nm from 2,500 meter isobath
Maritime claims
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The rights of the coastal state over the continental shelf do not affect the legal of the superjacent waters or of the air space above those waters.
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Most species of marine organism live on the continental shelf.
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Maritime Claims: territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or 100 nm from the 2,500-m isobath
Madagascar
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The shallow drilling programme is central to the systematic survey of the continental shelf.
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Madagascarterritorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or 100 nm from the 2,500-m deep isobath
Maritime claims
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But the lowest summer ice cap on record put sea ice far north of the outer continental shelf, the shallow, life-rich shelf of ocean bottom in the Bering and Chukchi seas.
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Lowered sea levels exposed the shallow continental shelf beneath the Bering Sea.
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Maritime Claims (as measured from claimed archipelagic baselines) Territorial sea to 12 nautical miles; contiguous zone to 24 nautical miles; exclusive economic zone to 200 nautical miles; continental shelf to 200 nautical miles or to the outer edge of the continental margin.
Trinidad and Tobago
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The government has announced the opening of the first tender for exploration on its continental shelf.
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This force is doing more than securing Russian economic interests and its claims on the continental shelf.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are few suitable locations along the shoreline, but many on the continental shelf.
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Lowered sea levels exposed the shallow continental shelf beneath the Bering Sea.
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It will also prompt the question of why Argentina is not exploiting its own continental shelf.
Times, Sunday Times
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This time of year, they should be foraging from the sea ice, floating over the productive waters of the continental shelf.
Biologist Tracks Walruses Forced Ashore As Ice Melts
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The Antarctic icefish belong to the perciform suborder Notothenioidei and are the largely endemic, dominant fish taxa in the cold continental shelf waters surrounding
WN.com - Articles related to Sea secrets - over 5,000 new marine species found
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They then fly up the coast following the continental shelf edge to Brazil before cutting across the Atlantic to Western Africa and making a U-turn to the North America coastline.
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This record, however, is diagenetically altered in most continental shelf sections and only high frequency temperature trends are generally preserved (Schrag et al. 1995 and references therein).
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Until the 1970s, the continental shelf of the Beaufort Sea off Alaska was also considered barren of rocky substrates and associated epibenthos.
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It will also prompt the question of why Argentina is not exploiting its own continental shelf.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maritime claims: territorial sea: 200 nm continental shelf: 100 nm from 2,500 meter isobath
Ecuador
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Workers in this area, without explicitly acknowledging this problem, generally assume that the dropstones are created by sea ice abrading the continental shelf at depth.
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Dark blue indicates deep ocean basins, while light blue denotes shallow seas of the continental shelf.
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The coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources.
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This force is doing more than securing Russian economic interests and its claims on the continental shelf.
Times, Sunday Times
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These whales feed primarily but not exclusively on squid, with one species foraging in deep oceanic waters and the other over the continental shelf.
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His father set his four lines and motored slowly along the continental shelf, out toward where they had seen the birds.
A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
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Mammoth and mastodon teeth have been dredged from 40 sites along the continental shelf off the eastern US in water up to 120 m deep.
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This scientific and research project is to analyze the geological structure of the continental shelf.
