continental shelf in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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shelf <pl shelves> [Brit ʃɛlf, Am ʃɛlf] N

I.continental [Brit kɒntɪˈnɛnt(ə)l, Am ˌkɑntəˈnɛnt(ə)l] N

II.continental [Brit kɒntɪˈnɛnt(ə)l, Am ˌkɑntəˈnɛnt(ə)l] ADJ

III.continental [Brit kɒntɪˈnɛnt(ə)l, Am ˌkɑntəˈnɛnt(ə)l]

continental shelf in the PONS Dictionary

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Coastal demersal fishes live on the bottom of inshore waters, such as bays and estuaries, and further out, on the floor of the continental shelf.
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This allowed the dispute over territorial waters and continental shelf to remain unresolved.
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The great northern tilefish is known to dig and occupy burrows along the outer continental shelf, and on the flanks of submarine canyons in malleable clay substrate.
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The basis for establishing the boundary in the 1971 and 1972 treaties was that of the natural prolongation of the physical continental shelf.
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They live on rocky, sandy, or muddy bottoms from the shoreline to beyond the edge of the continental shelf.
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They are common in driftnet catches of tuna along the edge of the continental shelf.
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Most inhabit the continental shelf in shallow rock and kelp reefs and deeper offshore reefs, whilst others are found well offshore in pelagic settings.
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A unique feature of this agreement is that it assigned only territorial waters to the islands, not the continental shelf.
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The imposter trevally inhabits coastal waters of the continental shelf in depths of up to 140 m, often associating with closely related carangid species.
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Although flatfish are bottom dwellers, they are not usually deep sea fish, but are found mainly in estuaries and on the continental shelf.
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