continental shelf
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Equinor has an ambition to maintain approximately the same production level in 2035 as in 2020, corresponding to around 1.2 million barrels of oil and gas a day from the Norwegian continental shelf.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
Outer coast transients, numbering about 210 animals, were most often found within 20 kilometers of the continental shelf break, particularly near submarine canyons.
From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2025
"He says that he will call it the Gulf of America on its continental shelf," Sheinbaum previously said when Trump signed the executive order.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025
Newly charted extensions to the U.S. continental shelf hold resources and scientific riches.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 8, 2024
At such times the ridge came down, and the continental shelf, so to speak, stretched out, and the algae along the shore became so slack that I tended to catch my feet in it.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
