continental shelfin a sentence
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Countries have exclusive right to mine minerals in the subsoil of their continental shelf.
continental shelf = gently sloping underwater plain from the continent's shore to about 200 meters of depth
- At such times the ridge came down, and the continental shelf, so to speak, stretched out, and the algae along the shore became so slack that I tended to catch my feet in it.† (source)
- Anyway, if this silent drive system really works, they might be able to creep up onto the continental shelf.† (source)
- He's going to be strapped into a tube and dropped over the continental shelf into six miles of seawater for crimes other people committed.† (source)
- She bit her lip, thought a moment, I guess, then said, "They were from New Salem, a bubble city off the North American continental shelf.† (source)
- They said it's right on the edge of the continental shelf."† (source)
- She impacted savagely on the hard sand bottom at the edge of the continental shelf.† (source)
- From a ridge some three hundred yards inland, the island sloped to the sea and, forty or so yards into it, fell off precipitously, disappearing from sight into the depths of the Pacific, surely the smallest continental shelf on record.† (source)
- They dine in elegant restaurants and he goes over in a tube beyond the continental shelf, six miles down in the sea, his body imploding into itself.† (source)
- Most recently, in 1978, a Soviet Yankee-class missile sub had closed to the edge of the continental shelf off the coast of New England.† (source)
- They'll have to slow as they cross the continental shelf line, and we'll tag along behind them, nice and quiet."† (source)
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- The V. K. Konovalov The Alfa drifted slowly at the edge of the continental shelf, about fifty miles southeast of Norfolk.† (source)
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