Sentences with phrase «edge of the continental shelf»

Their location on the soft, sediment - loaded edges of the continental shelves makes them difficult to mine, and when they are disturbed, their crystal structure may suddenly dissociate and release the methane trapped inside.

«We found a large corridor of reefs that escaped the most severe damage along the eastern edge of the continental shelf in the far north of the Great Barrier Reef,» Hughes said.

The blocks are wedged together all the way from the San Andreas Fault on the east, to the edge of the continental shelf on the west, from 150 to 200 kilometers (90 to 125 miles) offshore.

Methane hydrates were later found in permafrost in the 1960s, and in the oceans, commonly on the edges of the continental shelves, but only at certain ocean pressures and temperatures.

Storegga is at the edge of the continental shelf, where the bottom drops out on fishing boat depth - sounders.

In the spring of 2000 a team of American researchers caused a tremendous stir when they announced that they had found cracks and pockmarks, much like the ones off Norway, at the edge of the continental shelf near Cape Hatteras.

Major concentrations off the coast of the United States have been found along the edge of the continental shelf between New Jersey and Georgia.

The 7km - wide landslide occurred off the edge of the continental shelf causing the tsunami on the paleo - coastline lying between Airlie Beach and Townsville in the northern State of Queensland.

minus 2 degrees Celsius, has protected the shelf from the inflow of water masses that are 0.8 degrees warm, which the Weddell Gyre transports along the edge of the continental shelf (see graphic).

Altogether, researchers analysed data covering a 94,000 - square - kilometre arc (an area about the size of Indiana or Hungary) that includes the edge of the continental shelf and the steep slope just seaward of it, says co-author Adam Skarke, a geologist at Mississippi State University in Starkville.

In a paper to be published later this year, Lambshead and Guy Boucher of France's national research agency, the CNRS, point out that the slopes that plunge from the edge of the continental shelves, known as bathyal regions, contain a greater range of species than anywhere else on land or sea.

Snorkel or dive on the edge of the continental shelf at Agincourt Reef, feed giant cod at the Cod Hole or explore the waters surrounding a secluded coral cay.

We have more than 60 dive sites on the regular Small Hope Bay Lodge dive schedule, including colorful shallow reefs, coral gardens, wreck dives, breathtaking blue holes and stunning wall dives at the edge of the continental shelf, where the Tongue of the Ocean plunges to 6,000 feet.

The reef is on the edge of the continental shelf and the seabed surrounding the reef slopes out to a depth of 25 to 30m.

Stroll along fringes of white sand and snorkel amongst a kaleidoscope of fish on the edge of the continental shelf.

The Barrier Reef is world's largest World Heritage site, it is made up of more than 2,900 individual reefs and 70 coral cays sprinkled along the edge of the continental shelf.

Tusa's 16 sites are scattered on the reefs lying close to the edge of the continental shelf, where the best visibility and most spectacular corals can be found.

The Raja Ampat Aggressor has a variety of itineraries which include Raja Ampat, the Banda Sea, Komodo and Flores and all the way over to the west — the Derawan Islands on the edge of the continental shelf of East Kalimantan — one of the few liveaboards with such an extensive offering.

The sediment - colored water transitions to clearer dark blue near the edge of the continental shelf, where the water becomes deeper.