Sentence examples for a narrow continental from inspiring English sources

Offshore a narrow continental shelf drops abruptly into ocean depths.

The fishing resources of the New South Wales coast are limited by a narrow continental shelf.

While a narrow continental shelf fringes Siberia and the Korean Peninsula, on the Japanese side of the sea there are wider continental shelves, as well as groups of banks, troughs, and basins lying offshore.

Except for the temperate seas in the southeast and around Tasmania, Australia's extensive marine ecosystems are found in comparatively warm waters over a narrow continental shelf; by world standards their productivity is low, but they support a small domestic industry and are significant for tourism and recreation.

The valley is confined by pre-Holocene deposits and is connected with a narrow continental shelf.

Just the Calabria region shows a narrow continental shelf with a steep mountain chain which dips directly into the sea.

South of the Gironde, the 260 km of coastline is low, sandy and straight, with a narrowing continental shelf further on South due to the presence of the Cape Breton canyon in the bathyal and abyssal zones.

The central zone, also part of the Oregonian Province, has much less freshwater input, a narrower continental shelf, strongly seasonal upwelling, and more consistent southward flow offshore.

The Mediterranean has narrow continental shelves and a large area of open sea.

The aim of this work was to improve knowledge about the formation, evolution and present-day dynamics of these bedforms on a narrow, tideless continental shelf receiving little sediment input.

The evolution and characteristics of narrow continental rifting are illustrated in this paper through a review of recent lithospheric-scale analog models of continental extension compared with selected examples from the East African Rift System.