Sentence examples for edges of continental from inspiring English sources
The Romanche Gap is one of the few exceptionally deep trenches found in isolation from submarine mountain ranges or the edges of continental shelves.
Idomeni and Calais – at the southern and northern edges of continental Europe – were by far the largest such camps, each home to 9,000 or more.
Methane hydrates are found beneath the permafrost in polar regions and also in the ocean bed along the outer edges of continental shelves.
According to this theory, the shelves of the Pacific Ocean, for example, formed as the leading edges of continental margins on lithospheric plates that terminate either at fracture zones (sites where two such plates slide past each other) or at subduction zones (sites where one of the colliding plates plunges into the underlying partially molten asthenosphere).
Coastal deserts are mostly found on the western edges of continental land masses in regions where cold currents approach the land or cold water upwellings rise from the ocean depths.
DeltaSync even envisions residents cultivating aquaculture in lieu of gardens, manufacturing their food requirements from nutrients found in upwellings at the edge of continental shelves.
And the reason that the government is having to set money aside, no matter what the sums are, is because a number of them in that cabinet are planning for a no deal, some of them want us to be a tax haven off the edge of continental Europe and are willing to sacrifice our manufacturing base, we're not willing to tolerate that.
They are formed through a combination of low temperatures and high pressure, and are found primarily on the edge of continental shelves where the seabed drops sharply away into the deep ocean floor, as the US Geological Survey map shows.
Amongst the neritic TRAs, one (TRA21) was located in the estuary of the Rio de la Plata characterised by a high chlorophyll a surface concentration whereas others (e.g. TRA2, 7, 10) were located on the edge of continental shelves with a steep slope.
