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continental shelves: Refers to the gently sloping seabeds that are adjacent to continents and are part of the continental crust, playing a crucial role in marine ecosystems and geological processes
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The average width of continental shelves is about.
It is characterized by a deep central basin surrounded by extensive continental shelves.
Warm waters and continental shelves.
Cooperation also extends to the context of claims of extended continental shelves.
Found on the continental shelves and upper slopes.
Catodon habitat beyond the edge of continental shelves.
Coral reefs and continental shelves have suffered severe deterioration.
Borealis habitat beyond the edge of continental shelves.
The adjacent continental shelves have been extensively reworked during Quaternary glaciation.
Populations are denser close to continental shelves and canyons.
They seem to prefer schooling fish and remain primarily between intertidal zones and continental shelves.
Late Quaternary records of continental shelves of the world.
They are caught in waters beyond the main fishing grounds of continental shelves.
Two species typical of the continental shelves under the influence of Arctic waters.
This zone occurs next to reefs on continental shelves.
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The continental shelves and slopes of the Atlantic are potentially very rich in fossil fuels.
Oceanic islands are islands that do not sit on continental shelves.
The basin is bordered by the continental shelves of Eurasia and North America.
Most species live around islands and along the continental shelves.
They are marine, either on continental shelves or round oceanic islands.
Adults have been found to be also in the open sea above continental shelves.
The species is found dwelling in continental shelves throughout the Indian Ocean.
They are found located near muddy bottoms of the continental shelves.
As the sea level drops, the continental shelves appear immediately.
Common threshers tend to be more common in coastal waters over continental shelves.
Before that, much of the continental shelves were dry land.
The falling sea level disrupted or eliminated habitats along the continental shelves.
Continental shelves make up about 8 percent of the entire area covered by oceans.
They are most commonly found along outer continental shelves and upper slopes.
It inhabits continental shelves and uppermost slopes at depths from 60 to 380 m.
The open ocean is the area of deep sea beyond the continental shelves.
Finally, the delineation of continental shelves is a critical issue for the Pacific SIDS.
The falling sea level disrupted or destroyed habitats along the continental shelves.
Several longline fisheries occur on the continental shelves surrounding South Africa, South America and Australia.
They also may include in the definition of a Contracting State a reference to continental shelves.
This was in relation to extending their claimed continental shelves and Exclusive Economic Zones.
The central part of the island contains metasediments from African and Indian continental shelves.
In fact, it 's unlike most continental shelves in the world, he said.
The Amerasian Basin and the Eurasian Basin are surrounded by extensive continental shelves.
UNCLOS further provides procedures by which continental shelves beyond 200 nautical miles can be claimed.
They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves.
There are three distinct continental shelves in the northern part above 44 ° N.
The Arctic Ocean is surrounded by continental shelves.
Sediment-starved margins produce narrow continental shelves and passive margins.
Wild fisheries exist primarily in the oceans, and particularly around coasts and continental shelves.
This is a photograph, a typical photograph, of what the continental shelves of the world look like.
Methane clathrates (in which water molecules are the cage) form on continental shelves.
Settled, and the outer limits of some extended continental shelves not yet established.
Deep-sea fish are caught in waters beyond the main fishing grounds of continental shelves.
The surveys will help establish the limits of the undersea continental shelves of both countries.
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