Sentence examples for sea shelf from inspiring English sources

The Kremlin's foreign ministry said that the government is attempting to claim 1.2million square km (over 463,000 miles) of Arctic sea shelf which stretches over 350 nautical miles (650km) from the shore.

They found that the 3,000-foot-deep 3,000-foot-deep 3,000-foot-deeplenished with relatively warm (that is to say, 38 to 40 degrees fjordnheit) waser from the sea shelf beyond, driven by winds.

Charitha Pattiaratchi, a professor of oceanography at the University of Western Australia told Reuters that the search area covered an ocean ridge known as Naturalist Plateau, a large sea shelf about 3,500m (9,800ft) deep.

Kazakhstan hopes that the discovery of oil in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea shelf will catapult it into the ranks of the top five oil-producing countries.

While it is just a volcanic rock in the sea, its ownership is contested by the Irish, who insist it is closer to Ireland than the UK, the Danes – who argue it is part of the Faroe Islands sea shelf, and Iceland.

The Eastern Bering Sea shelf is divided into distinct hydrographic domains by structural fronts.

On Earth, the continents lie on tectonic plates that move relative to each other, creating mountains and deep sea shelves.

To the south, off southern Vietnam, the shelf narrows and connects with the Sundra Shelf, which is one of the largest sea shelves in the world.

The sea shelves gently and is flat except for two or three times a day when, for no obvious reason, it suddenly erupts with a dozen large waves, then just as suddenly stops, as though a sea monster has turned over in its sleep and flipped its tail.

Today Sunwah is a "sea to shelf to table" business that supplies frozen seafood, Japanese food and also wine to 5,000 restaurants in Hong Kong and Macau.

The area of extended crust under the Amundsen Sea Embayment shelf is presently about 250 km wide, so β values of 1.5 1.7 imply that about 80 100 km of extension has occurred in this region.