Sentence examples for off the continental from inspiring English sources
Instead, the mud slides past and tumbles off the continental shelf.
Chad Jay of the walrus research program at the Alaska Science Center in Anchorage said that over the last decade, the ice sheet in the Chukchi Sea had been retreating steadily farther north each summer, to the point where it now moves off the continental shelf entirely and ends up over the deep arctic basin, in waters too deep for walruses to forage.
All blue sharks moved off the continental shelf to the south and/or east after tagging (Fig. 1).
The relationship between BATHY and bluefin CPUE also suggested that bluefin tuna are primarily caught off the continental shelf in relatively deep waters (Table 2).
However, it is hard to rationalize why the blue sharks would navigate using the magnetic field only within the confines of the Gulf Stream, even when off the continental shelf, and only during the daytime.
More recently, spiny dogfish tagged with pop-up satellite tags in the Gulf of Maine were tracked moving off the continental shelf, providing more evidence for inshore-offshore migrations (Sulikowski et al., 2010).
In 1990, three months before the effort to raise fuel-efficiency standards failed on Capitol Hill, President Bush issued an executive order making large swaths of the continental shelf off-limits to new exploration.
Most of the mud instead billows into the Gulf of Mexico and off the edge of the continental shelf.
It was believed that she had sunk off the edge of the continental shelf, to a depth at which the Royal Australian Navy did not have the capability to search for a vessel of Centaurs size.
The Corps of Engineers already dredges 40 45 million cubic yards of sediment from the delta's numerous navigation channels each year, he says, and the material is discharged off the end of the continental shelf because that's the least expensive method of disposal.
Extensive mining of sand, gravel, and shell deposits in shallow parts of the continental shelf takes place off the coasts of the United States and Britain.
