Similar words: continental, continental congress, intercontinental, continental drift, transcontinental, continental divide, continental breakfast, continent. Meaning: n. the relatively shallow (up to 200 meters) seabed surrounding a continent.
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31. So in June, I called on Congress to lift the legislative ban that prevents offshore exploration of parts of the Outer Continental Shelf, or OCS.
32. The issue of outer continental shelf showed that the geographical factor is an important factor of many issues in the fields of international relations and international law.
33. Topographically, we may consider the coastal plain to be a terrestrial analog of the continental shelf.
34. Today, President Obama unveiled a program to develop the renewable energy projects on the waters of our Outer Continental Shelf that produce electricity from wind, wave, and ocean currents.
35. Middle-late Ordovieian is super- compensational bathyal basin (it′s feature is turbidite) and mixed continental shelf deposit. It is not favourable for the development of hydrocarbon source rock.
36. Looking at present-day biodiversity patterns in 4000 bivalve species, they have found no relationship between habitable area - in this case, continental shelf - and the number of bivalve species.
37. Sea sand can be found in coastal zone, continental shelf and nearshore shallow sea sediment systems in China.
38. The rights of the coastal state over the continental shelf do not affect the legal of the superjacent waters or of the air space above those waters.
39. Sonar to control. The bottom is rising. Range one thousand yards to the continental shelf.
40. Another ocean current flows northeast along the steep continental shelf.
41. Just off the coast , the continental shelf plunges, forming an underwater canyon.
42. Among them , that at the continental shelf is about 60 % and in deep and super deep %.
43. But Chinasays its zone extends to the edge of the continental shelf, almost to Japan.
44. The results strongly indicated that the lateral particle transportation continental shelf was the controlling mechanism.
45. The water above the continental shelf is moved by the tides and by estuarine currents.
46. Well, there's the entire outer continental shelf of North America that is basically barely been drilled, explored.
47. The slate can be divided into three types: shaly, sandy and phyllitization slate. It was formed by regional metamorphism of fine detritus in continental shelf.
48. Each spring, millions of horseshoe crabs migrate from the waters of the continental shelf to the shallower waters of Delaware Bay to spawn.
49. The foot of continental slope is an important terrain characteristic and is a basic evidence to get the out limit line of the expansion continental shelf right.
50. The seminar of the removal and disposal of obsolete offshore installations and structures in the excursive economic zone and continental shelf was held in sept 1995 at Bangkok.
51. Article 56(3) of the UNCLOS embodying the equitable principle makes a guidance on how to delimitate the continental shelf.
52. The continental shelf here is about 600 meters (2,000 feet) deep, and as the warm water from the open ocean meets the shelf,(www.Sentencedict.com) it continues to flow toward land and rises beneath the floating glacier.
53. First, we should expand American oil production by increasing access to offshore exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf, or OCS.
54. The place of the Kuroshio the continental shelf is always at the northeast area of Taiwan.
55. But the lowest summer ice cap on record put sea ice far north of the outer continental shelf, the shallow, life-rich shelf of ocean bottom in the Bering and Chukchi seas.
56. The ban, which has been in effect since 1981, covers more than 80 percent of the U.S. coastline and the outer continental shelf.
57. Beautiful scenery and unique, continental shelf is island and the mainland both scenery and ocean scenery.
58. Proposed oil and gas leasing in Alaska's Bristol Bay will be canceled out of concern for protecting sensitive areas of the Outer Continental Shelf from environmental dangers.
59. Sovereignty over natural resources on the continental shelf, ownership of all coastal States, but in the adjacent coastal States and the relative, the existence of specific delimitation.
60. Regarding energy, the Business Roundtable sent a letter on Thursday encouraging Congress to lift the ban on oil exploration on the outer continental shelf.
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