Sentence examples for underwater shelf from inspiring English sources

They had travelled to the Lomonosov ridge, an underwater shelf in Russia's remote and inhospitable eastern Arctic Ocean.

The numerical solutions are verified with the exact analytical solutions of linear wave propagation over an underwater shelf.

According to Russian scientists, there is new evidence backing Russia's claim that its northern Arctic region is directly linked to the North Pole via an underwater shelf.

Three sea-floor configurations are considered: an underwater shelf, a flat sea-floor with a single obstacle, and a series of obstacles.

In the early nineties, the Army Corps of Engineers assigned a group of hydraulic specialists to measure the "bathymetry" of New York Harbor — the topography of the underwater shelf around which the city is built.

In the early nineties, he writes, the Army Corps of Engineers asked a number of hydraulic specialists to measure the "bathymetry," or topography, of the underwater shelf around which the city is built.

A number of former Soviet rulers are commemorated in the Alley of the Leaders, their statues and busts standing or lying on underwater shelves of rock.

Whirring over a sun-streaked patch of tropical seafloor, a submersible equipped with cameras is helping provide the most detailed maps ever recorded of underwater shelves and struggling coral reefs in the Caribbean off the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.

I turned too soon at one point, and got hung up on an underwater ice shelf.

'THE UNDERWATER WELDER' (Top Shelf, $19.95) is about a deep-sea welder coming to terms with fatherhood.

Meanwhile, the United States, Canada and Russia are all busily mapping the underwater continental shelf in order to bolster claims to what are believed to be vast mineral deposits, including oil and gas.