Continental shelf
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continental-shelf-206-13783768
title:
Continental shelf
text:
A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea. Much of these shelves were exposed by drops in sea level during glacial periods. The shelf surrounding an island is known as an insular shelf. The continental margin, between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain, comprises a steep continental slope, surrounded by the flatter continental rise, in which sediment from the continent above cascades down the slope a
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Coastal and oceanic landform
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_shelf
date created:
2003-12-31T14:40:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T22:47:10Z
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13
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