continental shelf

Example Sentences

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They are pressuring the administration to prohibit drilling throughout the entire outer continental shelf to reduce the United States’ contribution to climate change.

From New York Times

The countries have long been at odds over issues such as maritime boundaries, overlapping claims over their continental shelves, airspace, migrants and ethnically split Cyprus.

From Reuters

Offshore wind energy on the Pacific Ocean has long been dismissed as a pipe dream due to the abrupt drop-off along the edges of its continental shelf.

From Seattle Times

“They mostly forage over the continental shelf and don’t go far out to sea.”

From Reuters

Cables that run over a continental shelf have to be buried between one and two metres deep.

From BBC