Examples of continental shelf

• 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.