Sentence examples for shelf area from inspiring English sources

Geophysical investigations of the shelf area since the mid-1970s have revealed the presence of many types of sand waves and ripple marks in seafloor sediments that show submerged continental shelf sediments to be constantly undergoing reworking and erosion.

Large rivers that drain a large, high continent, such as the Mississippi, are able to keep pace with rising sea level and deliver enough sediment to keep an estuary from forming, and, at a high stillstand like that of the present, even fill their entire shelf area.

In fact, the Oman shelf area was largely missed in all the JGOFS sampling.

Maps revealed the biomass distributed mosaically over the shelf area during both seasons.

During transgression, the coastline moves landwards and the shelf area enlarges.

An inner shelf area with water depths of up to 20 m is immediately adjacent to the coast.

In some shelf areas where seaweed was abundant, this was also incorporated into the diet.

Only 3% of total shelf areas around the continent have adequate protection.

Any extensions of continental shelf areas are more relevant to mineral resources".

The shallow shelf areas are covered with sediments from the bordering landmasses deposited mainly by the Yangtze and other rivers near the northern part of the sea.

About 60 percent of brachiopods live in shallow water (less than 100 fathoms about 180 metres [600 feet]) on the shelf areas around the continents.