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

如果没有海水支撑大陆，大陆就会崩塌。

" 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，它的大陆有金属矿藏，包括铜、锌、钴和稀。

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沿岸发现了一个巨大的地下水“河流”系统，流着的是稠密的含盐水。

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

根廷指控智利侵略领海以及试图占领部分大陆。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.

包括沿大陆区域，那里的冰附着在海岸，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，政府认为这片正在进行天然气钻探试验的海域属于大陆。

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 年代末在挪威大陆发现的石油和天然气资源。

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。

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 万年前的渐新世晚期或中新世早期和在西面的亚洲巽他古大陆接壤。

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.

海钻井平台将石油搜索范围扩大到海洋大陆， 即大陆边缘平缓倾斜的海底区域。

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”过客鲸在海岸附近的浅水区潜行，而“外海岸”过客鲸则在大陆边缘峡谷沿岸的开阔水域中捕猎。

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的大陆相连，而且格林兰岛又是丹麦属地，因此北极属于丹麦。

Sentence 42 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.

近海钻探平台将寻找石油的区域延伸到了海洋大陆——陆地附近浅海下缓缓的斜坡。

Because of its epic proportions, the behemoth " almost immediately got stuck" on the seabed around the continental shelf, which was too shallow for its keel to pass over, he says.

西格特说，由于巨大的体积，这座庞然大物“几乎立刻”就被困在了大陆周围的海床，那里太浅，它的龙骨无法通过。

(bright thoughtful music) The gentle slope of the Outer Banks's continental shelf creates an ideal environment for shoals as sand is pushed from deeper waters up onto the shelf.

（明快深思的音乐）外班克斯大陆的缓坡为沙洲创造了理想的环境，因为沙子从深水被推到大陆。

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的区域是大陆慢坡，从地质学来说，它是大陆的一部分。

The continental shelf that goes far out into the Atlantic Ocean creates an environment more conducive to abundant marine life, compared to the Mediterranean Sea, where such a shelf is lacking.

与缺乏大陆的地中海相比，延伸至大西洋的大陆创造了更有利于丰富海洋生物的环境。

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.

公海的深度差异很大， 但大部分从大陆延伸到 3,000 至 6,000 米深的地区，即所谓的深海平原。