How to Use continental shelf in a Sentence

continental shelf

noun

• The same applies to the first 200 nautical miles of the seafloor, the continental shelf.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• But the continental shelf off the coast of the Pacific plunges steeply.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
• On the Gulf coast, where the flat continental shelf worsens the threat, the surge could reach 12 feet from the cape to Captiva.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 9 Sep. 2017
• But the continental shelf off the coast of the Pacific plunges quickly and steeply.
  — Rob Nikolewski, latimes.com, 8 May 2018
• This zone includes all rights to resources in the water and on and under the seafloor—the continental shelf.
  — Gloria Dickie, Scientific American, 18 May 2021
• Gawarkiewicz studies the area of the Atlantic where the shallower waters of the continental shelf slide into the depths of the ocean.
  — Kyle Bagenstose, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2019
• In some places, like the Amundsen Sea, the warm water even reaches the continental shelf.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2017
• The chain of events that played out here doesn’t happen every time a storm crosses the continental shelf.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 9 Oct. 2020
• But along the West Coast, where tall cliffs and a deep continental shelf tend to blunt the impact of rising seas, there were problems, too.
  — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2019
• Billy showed Aurora the GPS and the depth finder and then the paper charts that marked their course straight out from the mainland to the edge of the continental shelf.
  — Nancy Lord, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Sep. 2017
• In the Gulf, the whales tend to stay on the continental shelf, far enough off-shore to avoid most casual boaters, but are not unusual in the deeper parts of the Gulf.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 28 Nov. 2020
• The crabs scuttled off the continental shelf and scientists just didn’t see them.
  — Laura Reiley, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022
• Greece claims part of the area is over its own continental shelf and has demanded that the Turkish ships withdraw.
  — Nicholas Paphitis, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Aug. 2020
• Because of this, targeting them often requires a long ride to the edge of the continental shelf in the Atlantic.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
• The continental shelf of the Florida Gulf Coast extends quite far offshore -- up to 200 miles in some spots, Truchelut said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2022
• This proved again that tsunamis travel faster in deeper water, and the abyss lurks just beyond the continental shelf.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2018
• This works out well for the US East Coast, where a broad continental shelf can host massive wind farms, many of which are in the permitting and planning stages.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2022
• If the treaty is found to extend to the continental shelf, then signatories would have equal rights to its resources.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
• Still others believe the crabs might have simply walked off the continental shelf.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 28 Nov. 2022
• But the continental shelf off California breaks fast and steep, dropping to depths of more than 600 feet not far from shore.
  — Judith Lewis Mernit, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2021
• First, it swam north along the continental shelf in shallow waters about 100 miles from the Canadian coast.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2017
• The Chukchi Sea region includes a lot of shallow water over the continental shelf.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 25 Aug. 2016
• The glider will travel 130 miles from Atlantic City to the edge of the underwater continental shelf and back.
  — Eric Niiler, National Geographic, 15 June 2018
• Hydrates can still be found at the edge of many continental shelves, Tollefson reports.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 June 2017
• The study looked at the North American continental shelves on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
• The waters right near the Gulf Coast along the continental shelf are shallow, and the top layer absorbs a lot of heat during summertime, as the hot sun beats down.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 9 Oct. 2020
• The research showed that the deposits of the relatively fresh water start at the shoreline and extend out as far as 75 miles, near the edge of the continental shelf, Gustafson said.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 28 June 2019
• Greece claims part of the area covers its continental shelf and has demanded that the Turkish ships withdraw.
  — Fox News, 14 Aug. 2020
• The continental shelf extends so far out from the coast and has a gradual slope, allowing the ocean to grow higher as hurricane winds drive the water onto land, Tang said.
  — Jeff Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• Plus, about one-third of the area Norway has opened up overlaps with the continental shelf and fishery protection zone around the Svalbard archipelago.
  — Eliza Gkritsi, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Aug 2024