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

如果没有海水支撑大陆架，大陆架就会崩塌。

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

" 它们大多在大陆架上觅食，不会到远海。"

Jacques Cousteau's 1962 continental shelf system was one of the first experiments in underwater living environments.

1962年雅克·库斯托的大陆架系统是水下生活环境的首批实验之。

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

据信，它的大陆架上有金属矿藏，包括铜、锌、钴和稀土。

Meijers said he is worried the iceberg will get caught on the underground continental shelf around South Georgia.

梅杰斯说，他担心这座冰山会被南乔治亚岛周围的地下大陆架卡住。

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

海底无人机在澳大利亚大陆架沿岸发现巨大的地下水“河流”系统，流着的是稠密的含盐水。

In the case of these islands, there is no continental shelf to be claimed.

对于这些岛屿，没有可以主张的大陆架。

But at that time, the coastline of the Americas was that continental shelf.

但在那时，美洲的海岸线就是那大陆架。

Now imagine if people started building cities on that continental shelf.

现在想象下，如果人们开始在大陆架上建造城市。

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陆架。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.

包括沿大陆架区域，那里的冰附着在海岸上，美国国家极地研究所在声明中称。

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在进行天然气钻探试验的海域属于土耳其大陆架。

To compromise, the UN created a third category, and that's for countries with wide continental shelves.

为妥协， 联合国创建第三类，那就是针对拥有广阔大陆架的国家。

The treaty stated that a continental shelf can extend up to 350 nautical miles from the coast.

该条约规定，大陆架可以从海岸延伸至多350海里。

It's worth briefly talking about the impact of this continental shelf amendment.

值得简要谈谈这大陆架修正案的影响。

The edge of a continental shelf also isn't always an exact science.

大陆架的边缘也不总是精确的学。

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：潜艇无人机发现套广泛的水下“河流” 系统， 这些河流由密集的咸水构成，位于澳大利亚大陆架沿线。

And it only approached the Asian Sunda continental shelf in the west around 20 to 25 million years ago in the late Oligocene or early Miocene epoch.

而且，它只有在大约 2,000 万到 2,500 万年前的渐新晚期或中新早期和在西面的亚洲巽他古大陆接壤。

The continental shelf is basically the piece of the continent which is submerged under the sea, but still part of the landmass.

大陆架基本上是大陆延伸至海底的部分， 虽然被海水淹没，但仍属于陆地的部分。

Offshore drilling platforms extend the search for oil to the ocean's continental shelves--those gently sloping submarine regions at the edges of the continents.

海上钻井平台将石油搜索范围扩大到海洋大陆架， 即大陆边缘平缓倾斜的海底区域。