If this action operated alone, the subtraction which the friction makes would cause the surf waves which roll in over a continental shelf to be very low, probably in height less than half that which they now attain.
Near the coast line the effect of the waves is continually to shove the detritus up the slopes of the continental shelf.
Our line of soundings showed the transition from the ocean depths to the continental shelf.
The continental shelf is simply a submerged plateau surrounding all the continent, the "Big Lead" marking the northern edge of that shelf where it dips into the polar sea.
They envisioned a periodic alongshore current flowing over undulations in the continental shelf.
Stocks of many large fishes have plummeted due to overfishing and destruction of critical habitat on the continental shelf by mechanized harvesting.
Ctenophores actually consume much of the copepod production on the continental shelf.
For example, the satellite observations of internal wave packets were correlated with semidiurnal and diurnal tides a t the edge of the continental shelf.
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