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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.
The flow of energy in marine ecosystems, with special reference to the continental shelf.
Soft-sediment benthic biodiversity on the continental shelf in relation to environmental variability.
Whilst the group accepts that these two species are caught on the continental shelf, it is imperative that they are properly regulated.
Added to which is the lack of a continental shelf, meaning that fishing essentially takes place on what are referred to as ‘submarine hills’.
The continental shelf makes no contribution to the gross domestic product of manufacturing industries.
The integrity of safety zones around installations on the continental shelf is kept under review by the authorities concerned.
This is a practical arrangement, allocating the right to countries of exploration and extraction of substances from the continental shelf.
These will deal with questions connected with fisheries and the continental shelf, and seabed jurisdiction.
In addition, there are about 3 billion barrels of proven oil on the continental shelf whose development is pretty uncertain.
He has to consider the whole question of alternative suppliers, of the way in which the market is working, the problems of the continental shelf.
The new clause also assumes a rather simpler pattern of trading for our continental shelf crude than currently occurs.
