continental shelf

Typically when biologists track turtles from their nesting beaches on small islands, most wind up in coastal territory, having paddled across the open ocean until hitting a continental shelf and then turning left or right.

The almost 165,000 acres of land on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf will be auctioned for lease in late July.

The state has also dedicated its share of money from oil production on the outer continental shelf to rebuilding the coast.

Geophysical Research Letters: Observed currents over the outer continental shelf during Hurricane Ivan.

Near the coast line the effect of the waves is continually to shove the detritus up the slopes of the continental shelf.

This is the broadest portion of the continental shelf now known on the Atlantic border of the continent.

Throughout its entire extent, however, the continental shelf abounds in both plant and animal life.

The Pacific basin is deep close to the land bordering it, thus restricting the seaward extension of the continental shelf.

In this and in similar cases the progress of the estuary is indicated upon what is now the continental shelf.