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，会到远海。"

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

据信，它大陆架上有金属矿藏，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.

海底无人机在澳大利亚大陆架沿岸发现了一个巨大水“河流”系统，流着是稠密含盐水。

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

阿根廷控智利侵略其领海以及试图占领部分大陆架。相关官员称可接受。

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，那里冰附着在海岸上，美国国家极研究所在声明中称。

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海域属于土耳其大陆架。

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 年代末在挪威大陆架发现石油和天然气资源。

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陆架发现了一个广泛水“ 河流” 系统，该系统由浓密咸水组成。

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 万年前渐新世晚期或中新世早期和在西面亚洲巽他古大陆接壤。

While " inner-coast" transients stalk shallow waters near the shore, " outer-coast" transients hunt in the deep open waters along canyons at the edge of the continental shelf.

“内海岸”过客鲸在海岸附近浅水区潜行，而“外海岸”过客鲸则在大陆架边缘峡谷沿岸开阔水域中捕猎。

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陆架相连，而且格林兰岛又是丹麦属，因北极属于丹麦。

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陆架慢坡，从质学上来说，它是大陆一部分。

The depth of the open ocean varies considerably  but the majority of it falls from the continental shelf down to depths of between 3,000 and 6000  meters, in what are known as abyssal plains.

公海深度差异很大， 但大部分从大陆架延伸到 3,000 至 6,000 米深区，即所谓深海平原。

But these continents, in terms of a strict geological definition  actually extend outward some way into the sea, in the form of shallow continental shelves, before  suddenly dropping down into the abyssal plains of the deep oceans.

但按照严格质定义，这些大陆实际上以浅大陆架形式向外延伸到海中，然后突然坠入深海平原。