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

东南部的沿海地表之上，而佛罗里达的面积也是现在的两倍。

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

如果没有海水支撑，就会崩塌。

It has existed since 1986, when it broke off from the Antarctic shelf.

它自1986年从南极上分离出来以来一直存在。

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

" 它们多在上觅食，不会到远海。"

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

据信，它的上有金属矿藏，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的地下卡住。

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

海底无人机在澳利亚沿岸发现了一个巨的地下水“河流”系统，流着的是稠密的含盐水。

Iceberg A23a remained stuck for 30 years before finally breaking free from the Antarctic shelf in 2020.

A23a冰山被困了30年，直到2020年才最终从南极上脱离出来。

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，海平面幅度回升，再次淹没了通往亚洲的。

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 年代末在挪威发现的石油和天然气资源。

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。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土耳其。

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

来自澳利亚： 潜艇无人机沿着澳利亚发现了一个广泛的水下“ 河流” 系统，该系统由浓密的咸水组成。

North of Siberia into the Arctic Ocean, however, and the shelf extends as much as 1,300km (800 miles) before dropping away.

然而， 在西伯利亚以北进入北冰洋，在消失之前延伸了多达 1,300 公里（800 英里）。

But he said it is also possible the large ice mass could miss the shelf and continue moving into open waters beyond South Georgia.

但他说，也有可能巨的冰块会错过，继续向南乔治亚岛以外的开阔水域移动。

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.

作者对挪威50年来的钻探进行了分析，得出的结论是，不同公司之间的成功率差异是随机产生的。

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扩到海洋， 即边缘平缓倾斜的海底区域。

Because continental shelfs are gently sloping, this has led to dramatic changes in the land area of continents throughout geological time.

由坡度平缓，导致整个地质时期的面积发生剧烈变化。

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，在能源公司中掀起了一股极地热潮—上个月美国的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战略伙伴关系协议就是明证。