"shelf" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They had travelled to the Lomonosov ridge, an underwater shelf in Russia's remote and inhospitable eastern Arctic Ocean.
- Some scientists speculate that the methane gas pockets in the underwater shelves could cause undersea landslides that might produce tsunamis.
- There are oil and gas fields in the underwater shelf around the island, which are among the largest in Indonesia.
- Tattenham Ledge, a long shallow underwater shelf of rock, extends from the northern side of the island and is a hazard to navigation.
- Xabbu scrambled out, but the river was surprisingly shallow; Renie decided they had crashed on the edge of a sandbar or some other kind of underwater shelf.
- The villagers, whose heads could be seen bobbing about in the distance, had reached the edge of the underwater shelf.
- Its success would turn near-surface submarine shelves like this one into prime candidates for life, abundant life like the coral colonies that populated the underwater shelves of Earth.
- The underwater shelf of the coastline dropped off abruptly after a few more feet; she knew when she passed the place by the deeper hue and colder water.
- Jack saves Steve's life but is lost when the Southern Cross slips off the underwater shelf into deep water.
- Thetis joins him as he reaches the underwater shelf where the depths begin.
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