Sentence examples for continental platform from inspiring English sources

The lack of clear legal rules in the management of coastal, continental platform and deep coral communities is one of the principal problems for these complex communities.

The eastern and southeastern fringes of the United States are part of the outermost margins of the continental platform, repeatedly invaded by the sea and veneered with layer after layer of young, poorly consolidated sediments.

In addition to clastic wedges closely linked to a land source, Silurian shales also formed on continental platform margins, as in the nearly 500 metres (1,640 feet) of strata belonging to the Road River Group in the Canadian Yukon.

Likewise the world's second largest island, New Guinea (309,000 square miles [800,000 square km]), is part of the Australian continental platform and is separated from it only by the very shallow and narrow Torres Strait.

According to Glennie (2000), the start of subduction during the Aptian was accompanied by crustal warping of the Arabian continental platform creating erosional highs and intrashelf euxinic basins between them.

It includes three major rivers (Orinoco, Amazon, and La Plata), which discharge enormous amounts of freshwater and sediment to the ocean, and the coast has an extensive continental platform.

Kimberlite occurs in the uplifted centres of continental platforms.

In geologic terms, Asia comprises several very ancient continental platforms and other blocks of land that merged over the eons.

Basal Silurian strata virtually everywhere record a rapid rise in the level of the sea, which reflooded vast continental platforms.

Seafloor topography was muted over large areas of flooded continental platforms, and faunas of shelly invertebrates in different regions were remarkably consistent with one another.

In contrast to the Late Ordovician event, these fluctuations did not strongly affect the shelly bottom-dwelling invertebrates perched on continental platforms.