大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 continental shelf


释义：

continental shelf 大陆架：沿着大陆边缘延伸的浅水区域，通常在海岸线附近，水深逐渐增加，直到到达大陆坡

例句：


Lowered sea levels exposed the shallow continental shelf beneath the Bering Sea.

下降了的海平面使白令海底的浅大陆架露了出来。



The frequency of whale fish theft in the Bering Sea's continental shelf is increasing.

白令海大陆架上的鲸鱼盗窃案发生得越来越频繁。



Research now indicates that sizable areas of southeastern Alaska along the inner continental shelf were not covered by ice toward the end of the last Ice Age.

现在的研究表明，在最后一次冰河时期的尾声阶段，阿拉斯加东南部沿岸的内大陆架的相当大的区域并未被冰覆盖。



He theorized that with the use of watercraft, people gradually colonized unglaciated refuges and areas along the continental shelf exposed by the lower sea level.

他的理论是，随着船只的使用，人们沿着因海平面下降而暴露的大陆架逐渐移居到未冻结成冰的区域。



It had been assumed that the ice extended westward from the Alaskan/Canadian mountains to the very edge of the continental shelf, the flat, submerged part of the continent that extends into the ocean.

人们过去曾猜测，冰山从阿拉斯加和加拿大山脉向西延伸到大陆架的最边缘，也就是大陆架扁平的、延伸到海洋中的水下大陆那部分。



The Aqishan-Yamansu island-arc belt occurred on a wide continental shelf sea in the Visean Stage.

阿齐山—雅曼苏岛弧带发生在维宪期阶段的广阔大陆架海上。



How do people define the continental shelf?

人们怎么确定陆架的范围的？



This area on the map is the continental shelf.

地图上的这一片区域都是陆棚区。



Peat layer is on the continental shelf there was lush vegetation of a proof.

泥炭层是大陆架上曾经有茂盛植物的一个印证。



There into the sea on the continental shelf of alluvial river delta formation.

在大陆架上有流入大海的江河冲积形成的三角洲。



The animals often search for food over the continental shelf of the Chukchi sea.

这些海象们通常在楚克奇海洋的大陆架上觅食。



The depth of the continental shelf is generally below 200 meters, width sizes, slope gentle.

大陆架的深度一般在200米以下，宽度大小不一，坡度和缓。



Topographically, we may consider the coastal plain to be a terrestrial analog of the continental shelf.

从地形角度讲我们可以把沿岸平原看成是大陆架在陆上的类似构造。



But there will still be rich pickings in the extended continental shelf that is up for grabs by May 13th.

但在5月13日之前，仍然是各国申请延伸大陆架、抓住这片丰富海底宝藏的最后机会。



This scientific and research project is to analyze the geological structure of the continental shelf.

这个科研项目的内容是分析陆架的地质结构。



How much longer it will be before they invade the rich uplands of the continental shelf is hard to say.

它们多久后会入侵富饶的大陆坡高地还不好说。



Lobsters live on rocky, sandy, or muddy bottoms from the shoreline to beyond the edge of the continental shelf.

龙虾生活在大陆架边缘海岸处的岩石，沙土，或泥底。



They can often be found on the slopes of the continental shelf, though as yet they are impossibly awkward to extract.

它们能经常在大陆架的斜坡上找到，尽管目前来看其开采难度之大令人望而却步。



This time of year, they should be foraging from the sea ice floating over the productive waters of the continental shelf.

往年这个时候，它们应该在漂浮在这片大陆架地区食物丰富的海域上的冰面上捕食。



In 1945, though, the United States unilaterally claimed jurisdiction over the natural resources of its continental shelf.

虽然如此，但是1945年，美国单方面声称对其大陆架的自然资源拥有权限。