Sentence examples for a wide continental from inspiring English sources

The Bay of Bengal is bordered to the north by a wide continental shelf that narrows to the south and by slopes of varying gradient on the northwest, north, and northeast, all cut by canyons from the rivers.

The performance of coastal altimetry over a wide continental shelf is assessed using multiple-year ocean current observations by moored Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) and high-frequency (HF) radar on the West Florida Shelf.

France's Atlantic coast north of the Gironde estuary is a succession of rocky and sandy shorelines, including a sizeable intertidal zone, a wide continental shelf, and two major estuaries (Loire and Gironde).

The present activity of deep-sea sedimentary processes is linked to the existence of a direct connection between the Congo River estuary and the Congo canyon head that allows relatively continuous sediment feeding of the deep-sea environment, in spite of a wide continental shelf (150 km).

The Lake Vostok basin is a small (50 km / 30 mi wide) tectonic feature within the overall setting of a several hundred kilometer wide continental collision zone between the Gamburtsev Mountain Range, a subglacial mountain range and the Dome C region.

Even after long-distance transport across wide continental areas, detrital modes thus reveal the tectonic character of the source rather than the geodynamic environment of the sink.

Much of the organic matter associated with this high productivity sinks onto the relatively wide continental shelf, where decay results in the reduction of dissolved oxygen in bottom waters [5].

Following a basal radiation in the Late Triassic, pterosaurs diversified into a wide variety of continental and marine ecosystems and remained successful aerial predators until the end of the Cretaceous, an interval of more than 150 million years [1], [2], [5], [7].

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High-speed lines are built to higher and wider continental loading gauges.

The widest continental shelf is off Spain at the Ebro River delta, where it extends about 60 miles (95 km).