Sentences with phrase «outer shelf»

No one is likely to start investing in expensive resource exploration and extraction if they could be evicted by an international ruling, so the outer shelves will not see development for another 30 years or so, says Baker.

To get a better estimate, the consortium of 17 researchers from Europe and Australia carefully drilled two holes, one 86 meters deep into the reef's inner shelf, the other 210 meters into a narrow reef skirting the margin of the outer shelf.

Strontium isotope ratios in the outer shelf core date its oldest coral remains to between 490,000 and 1.05 million years old.

As Stein relates, «Towards the end of the Saale glaciation (roughly 140,000 to 150,000 years ago), the glaciers most likely extended beyond the outer shelf.

No nation is likely to start investing in expensive resource exploration and extraction if it could be evicted by a neighboring country's extended seabed claim under UNCLOS, so the outer shelves will not see development for another 30 years or so, Baker points out.

Around the Antarctic Peninsula, recession from the outer shelf began at about 17.5 ka BP, from the middle shelf around 14 ka BP and the inner shelf around 11 ka BP.

Such channels are normal tidal channels that allow exchange of water between the outer shelf and inner shelf during tidal cycles.