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Cosa (chi) è continental shelf - definizione

PORTION OF A CONTINENT THAT IS SUBMERGED UNDER AN AREA OF RELATIVELY SHALLOW WATER KNOWN AS A SHELF SEA
Shelf break; Continental shelves; Continental Shelf; Shelf sea; Continental shelf break; Coastal Shelf; Outer continental shelf; Inner continental shelf; Mid continental shelf; Mid-continental shelf; Coastal shelf; Continental shelve; Outer shelf; Shelf-ecosystem; Shelf ecosystem
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continental shelf         
¦ noun an area of seabed around a large land mass where the sea is relatively shallow.
Continental shelf         
A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea. Much of these shelves were exposed by drops in sea level during glacial periods.
continental shelf         
The continental shelf is the area which forms the edge of a continent, ending in a steep slope to the depths of the ocean.
...the deep water off the Continental Shelf.
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Continental shelf

A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea. Much of these shelves were exposed by drops in sea level during glacial periods. The shelf surrounding an island is known as an insular shelf.

The continental margin, between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain, comprises a steep continental slope, surrounded by the flatter continental rise, in which sediment from the continent above cascades down the slope and accumulates as a pile of sediment at the base of the slope. Extending as far as 500 km (310 mi) from the slope, it consists of thick sediments deposited by turbidity currents from the shelf and slope. The continental rise's gradient is intermediate between the gradients of the slope and the shelf.

Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the name continental shelf was given a legal definition as the stretch of the seabed adjacent to the shores of a particular country to which it belongs.

Esempi dal corpus di testo per continental shelf
1. Outer Continental Shelf." Department officials declined to describe the plan.
2. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.
3. As is our refusal to drill on the continental shelf.
4. Japan is contemplating including the continental shelf of Korea in the waters to be surveyed and presenting data on the survey of the continental shelf based on the results of its survey and measurements and its map to the UN Commission on the Limits of Continental Shelf in a bid to get its approval before any others.
5. McConnell says 85 percent of the outer continental shelf is currently off limits.