continental shelf

continental shelf

A submerged border of a continent that slopes gradually and extends to a point of steeper descent to the ocean bottom.

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continental shelf

(Physical Geography) the sea bed surrounding a continent at depths of up to about 200 metres (100 fathoms), at the edge of which the continental slope drops steeply to the ocean floor

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con′tinen′tal shelf′

the part of a continent that is submerged in relatively shallow sea.

[1940–45]

continental shelf

continental shelf

The part of the edge of a continent covered by shallow ocean waters and extending to the steep slopes that descend into the deep part of the ocean.

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continental shelf

A shallow sea bed; the submerged edge of a continent.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

continental shelf - the relatively shallow (up to 200 meters) seabed surrounding a continent

Davy Jones, Davy Jones's locker, ocean bottom, ocean floor, sea bottom, sea floor, seabed - the bottom of a sea or ocean

Translations

إفْريز قارّي

континентален шелф

plataforma continental

kontinentální šelf

kontinentalsokkelfastlandssokkel

FestlandssockelKontinentalplatteKontinentalschelfKontinentalsockelSchelf

plataforma continental

mandrilavašelf

mannerjalustamannermaajalusta

plateau continental

מדף יבשתי

epikontinentalni pojas

kontinentális pad

paparan benua

landgrunn

piattaforma continentale

大陸棚

kontinentinis atabradasšelfas

continentaal plat

kontinentalsokkel

półka kontynentalnaszelf kontynentalny

plataforma continental

platformă continentală

континентальный шельф

okraj kontinentu zaplavený morom

континентална полицашелф

kontinentalsockel

kıta sahanlığı

континентальний шельф

thềm lục địa

大陆架

continent¹

(ˈkontinənt) noun

1. one of the great divisions of the land surface of the world – Europe, America, Australia, Asia or Africa.

2. Europe excluding Britain. We are going to the continent for our holidays.

ˌcontiˈnental (-ˈnen-) adjective

continental breakfast

a light breakfast of rolls and coffee.

continental shelf noun

the part of a continent that is under a relatively shallow sea.

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References in periodicals archive

Paragraph 3 states that "the continental margin comprises the

Warm is the new cold: global warming, oil, UNCLOS Article 76, and how an Arctic Treaty might stop a new Cold War

[9] Cochran, J.R., 1981, "The Gulf of Aden Structure and Evolution of a young Ocean Basin and Continental Margin", Journal of Geophysical Research, 86, pp.

Sub-surface structure and oil and gas migration in the Qamar Gulf, eastern Yemen based on gravity anomalies

Not much investigation has been made into the deep water area around South Africa's continental margin. "The ocean floor in the deep-water environment is less well-mapped than the surface of Mars," says the chairman of the project, Ian McLaughlin.

Maritime: South Africa wants more of its seas

140-150 Ma) to the present, eastern China became a part of the active continental margin. The Nanling mountain belt and the NNE-SSW fractures, with volcanic belts in southeastern China, were mainly formed during these periods.

Geology of China

Tectonic Background: Syria lies in the western continental margin of the Arabian Plate.

SYRIA - The Geology

Males moved directly north or northwest at a mean speed of 90 [pm] 27 km/d to focal foraging areas along the continental margin ranging from coastal Oregon (534 km away) to the western Aleutian Islands (4775 km away).

FORAGING ECOLOGY OF NORTHERN ELEPHANT SEALS

In the summer of 1990 my University of South Carolina colleagues (Eric Tappa, Carol Pride, Eileen Kincaid, and Kathy Tedesco) and I initiated the first of three time series sediment trapping programs designed to study particle fluxes in continental margin basins.

Continental margin particle flux: seasonal cycles and archives of global change

Recovery of offshore oil and gas from the continental margin (that part of the continent that extends underwater to the deep seabed)has proceeded with the march of technology.

Chapter eight: oceans and the law

"I think the material underneath the continental margin are perfectly strong enough to make a large quake," he says.

Rattling the Northwest: signs of prehistoric superquakes may portend a future shock

Tectonic Background: Syria lies in the Levantine continental margin of the Arabian Plate.

Syria - The Geology Of Syria

From Depositional Systems to Sedimentary Successions on the Norwegian Continental Margin

The bill also defines the continental shelf of the Philippines as comprising "the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas that extend beyond its territorial sea throughout the natural prolongation of its land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin, or to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured where the outer edge of the continental margin does not extend up to that distance."

House OKs bill defining PH waters

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