Sentence examples for broad shelf from inspiring English sources

An exception is the broad shelf extending for 300 miles (485 km) along the inner portion of the Adriatic Sea.

Overshadowed by the towering ranges of Victoria Land, the floor of the Ross Sea extends northward as a broad shelf before plunging into the deeps of the Southeast Pacific Basin along a line from Scott Island to Cape Colbeck.

Doug put a few drops of neat's-foot oil in the pocket of his mitt, folded a ball into it, and placed it on the broad shelf that held shin guards, a catcher's mask, and a cracked Hillerich & Bradsby thirty-four-inch bat that Mr. Kershaw thought could be glued.

Finally, we have studied the current response due to a concentrated wind stress jet acting perpendicular to the coastline in the transition zone between the narrow and the broad shelf regions.

The Carolina capes and their seaward shoals, along with the broad shelf (up to 200 km), also influence Gulf Stream flow and result in retention of water masses and their pelagic larvae in gyres between the capes.

As the Miocene transitions into the Pliocene, the increasingly isolated Caribbean Sea becomes more oligotrophic and the once broad shelf habitats are now dominated by steeper reef platforms, ideal conditions for primarily photoautotrophic reef species.

Exceptionally broad shelves occur off northern Australia and Argentina.

The Mississippian is characterized by shallow-water limestones deposited on broad shelves occupying most continental interiors, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere.

The place is comfortable and functional with a loft aesthetic of open, flexible space, with pictures propped on broad shelves rather than hanging in gilded frames.

The instability leads to development of anticyclonic eddies on the narrow shelf which undergo strong non-linear adjustment at the transition zone from a narrow to a broader shelf.

It is a broad submarine shelf covered by shallow, warm seawater.