The increased wave action reaches down and stirs up sediments
on shallow continental shelves, releasing radium and other chemicals that are carried up to the surface and swept away into the open ocean by currents such as the Transpolar Drift.
Their scientific cruises
on the shallow continental shelf occurred as sea ice in the Arctic Ocean was rapidly melting and as northern Siberia was earning the distinction — along with the North American Arctic and the western Antarctic Peninsula — of warming faster than any place on Earth.
We worked mostly
on the shallow continental shelf areas where water depths vary between 50 and 500 meters.
Not exact matches
A throng of reef - dwelling organisms live
on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico's
continental shelf some 200 kilometers offshore, from corals in the
shallower regions to sponges, sea fans and other soft corals, and numerous fish species in the deep.
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.
For example, the argument that follows very substantially from the extent of
continental shelf that there is within the Arctic Basin and, therefore, the particular relationship that warming
on that relatively
shallow sea has
on trapped methane - for example, the emergence of methane plumes in that
continental shelf, apparently in quite an anomalous way - leading possibly to the idea that there may be either tipping points there or catastrophic feedback mechanisms there, which could then have other effects
on things, such as more stabilised caps like the Greenland ice cap and so
on.
Most pending offshore wind projects are along the New England and Mid-Atlantic coast for three reasons: First, the strong, consistent winds there — which a recent University of Delaware estimated as having the potential to generate 330 gigawatts of power, enough to meet a significant proportion of the energy needs of the Atlantic coastal states from Massachusetts to North Carolina — can be tapped
on the broad,
shallow continental shelf.