Sentence examples for marine continental from inspiring English sources

However, one preferred environment where many of the oldest signs of life are found is shallow marine continental margins (see references in Schopf and Klein 1992).

Microfossils suggested that seafloor erosion by the tsunami in the intertidal, nearshore and open marine (continental shelf) environments had occurred (Hawkes et al., 2007; Kokociński et al., 2009; Sawai et al., 2009).

The POST project was established to focus primarily on the present distribution of marine continental shelf species.

Its territorial sea includes the 12 nautical miles from the coastline, the maritime zone that begins in the coastal region, including the marine continental shelf and the exclusive economic zone that extends 200 nautical miles from the coast.

Marine continental margin ecosystems and associated depositional settings [33] are heterogeneous and, although there is typically a general relationship between organic carbon and water depth (deeper waters, lower carbon contents), carbon contents of underlying marine sediments vary greatly.

The most fossiliferous and best-studied deposits are principally from marine continental-shelf environments.

The area has a marine-continental climate, and annual average temperature of 14.9 °C.

The Taiyuan Formation coal and shale in Qinshui Basin are both formed in the marine-continental transitional environment and they have the same type of kerogen.

In the Antarctic both marine and continental Devonian strata occur, the latter rich in fossil fishes of European genera.

The Carboniferous Period was a time of highly variable depositional settings, characterized by both shallow marine and continental environments.

The shift in dominance between marine and continental air masses, however, spawns furious weather in some regions.