"shelf" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The sediments that make up these rocks were deposited in a variety of marine environments, ranging from deep ocean basins to continental shelf areas.
- Cambodia also claims 48,000 km of shelf area.
- While the paper dealt only with areas from Vancouver to northern California, other continental shelf areas may be experiencing similar effects.
- Besides outlining what is legal in continental shelf areas, it also dictated what could not be done in Article 5.
- The drainage in the shelf area cut a series of small ravines, leaving terraces between them.
- Phytoplankton over the shelf area face two fates: They sink to the bottom or are consumed by zooplankton.
- Abundant in cold and temperate shelf areas, it forms large schools near the surface.
- A continuing decrease in Laurentian continental shelf area is recorded at the same time as the extinctions, suggesting major environmental upheaval.
- This made huge shelf areas part of its territory.
- Most marine life is found in coastal habitats, even though the shelf area occupies only seven percent of the total ocean area.
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