Sentences with phrase «steep shelf edge»
Second, the influence of the coastal waves is strongest on the western side of the peninsula, due to topographic steering by the particularly steep shelf edge bathymetry.
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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.