Without the weight of water to support their sides, the continental shelves would collapse.

如果没有海水支撑大，大就会崩塌。

" They mostly forage over the continental shelf and don't go far out to sea" .

" 它们大多大觅食，不会到远海。"

The southeast coastal shelf was exposed and Florida doubled in size.

东南部沿海大还处于地表之，而佛罗里达面积也是现两倍大。

Its continental shelf is believed to have deposits of metals, including copper, zinc, cobalt and rare earths.

据信，它大有金属矿藏，包括铜、锌、钴和稀土。

Submarine drones uncovered an extensive system of underwater " rivers" of dense, salty water along Australia's continental shelf.

海底无人机澳大利亚大沿岸发现了一个巨大地下水“河流”系统，流着是稠密含盐水。

Not long after this, warming climate and melting ice raised sea levels sharply so that the land-bridge to Asia flooded once again.

没过多久，全球气候变暖，冰川融化，海平面大幅度回升，再次淹没了通往亚洲大。

It comes from the oil and gas resources that was found in the late 1960s on the Norwegian continental shelves.

它来自 20 世纪 60 年代末大发现石油和天然气资源。

However, the Turkish government believes the waters, in which natural gas is being drilled on a trial basis, belong to the Turkish continental shelf.

然而，土耳其政府认为这片正进行天然气钻探试验海域属于土耳其大。

Argentina accuses Chile of encroaching into its territorial waters and trying to seize part of the continental shelf. Officials described the move as unacceptable.

阿根廷指控智利侵略其领海以及试图占领部分大。相关官员称此举不可接受。

These include areas along continental shelf formations where ice is attached to the shore, the National Institute of Polar Research said in a statement.

包括沿大区域，那里冰附着海岸，美国国家极地研究所声明中称。

And from Australia: Submarine drones uncovered an extensive system of underwater " rivers" of dense, salty water along Australia's continental shelf.

来自澳大利亚： 潜艇无人机沿着澳大利亚大发现了一个广泛水下“ 河流” 系统，该系统由浓密咸水组成。

The authors' analysis of 50 years of drilling on the Norwegian Continental Shelf concluded that the differences in success rates between individual firms were random.

作者对大50年来钻探进行了分析，得出结论是，不同公司之间成功率差异是随机产生。

Hence a growing polar enthusiasm among energy companies—as witnessed last month in an Arctic tie-up between Exxon Mobil, of America, and Rosneft, Russia's state-controlled oil giant.

因此，能源公司中掀起了一股极地热潮—个月美国埃克森美孚公司与俄罗斯国有石油巨头俄罗斯石油公司达成北极大战略伙伴关系协议就是明证。

The country says because the North Pole is connected to the continental shelf of Greenland, and because Greenland is a Danish autonomous territory, the North Pole is Denmark`s.

这个国家表示因为北极与格林兰岛大相连，而且格林兰岛又是丹麦属地，因此北极属于丹麦。

This continental slope usually starts at a place somewhere near the 100-fathom mark and in the course of a few hundred miles reaches the true ocean floor at 2, 500-3, 500 fathoms.

大慢坡一般是从差不多100英寻水深地方开始，一直延伸到几百英里远深达2，500至3，500地方，那里才是真正海底。

From the shore line, out to a distance which may be anywhere from a few miles to a few hundred miles, runs the gentle slope of the continental shelf, geologically part of the continents.

从海岸线向大海延伸几英里到几百英里区域是大慢坡，从地质学来说，它是大一部分。

He describes " the instantaneous grief of being alone" , death as an " anaesthetic from which none come round" and the way misery, passed from parents to their children, " deepens like a coastal shelf" .

他描述了“孤独瞬间悲伤”，死亡是一种“没有人能摆脱麻醉剂” ，以及痛苦从父母传给孩子方式， “像沿海大一样加深” 。