continental shelf - Meaning in Hindi

Meaning of continental shelf in Hindi

  • महाद्वीपीय शेल्फ
  • महाद्वीपीय जलसीमा
  • महाद्वीपीय जलमग्न सीमा

continental shelf Definition

Noun

  • the area of seabed around a large landmass where the sea is relatively shallow compared with the open ocean. The continental shelf is geologically part of the continental crust.

continental shelf Example

  • extensive areas of continental shelf ( महाद्वीपीय शेल्फ के व्यापक क्षेत्र )
  • The southern component spreads over the continental shelf. ( दक्षिणी घटक महाद्वीपीय शेल्फ में फैला हुआ है। )
  • Where the French telegraph cable between Brest and New York passes from the continental shelf of the Bay of Biscay to the depths of the Atlantic the angle of slope is. ( जहां ब्रेस्ट और न्यूयॉर्क के बीच फ्रेंच टेलीग्राफ केबल बिस्के की खाड़ी के महाद्वीपीय शेल्फ से अटलांटिक की गहराई तक जाती है, ढलान का कोण है। )
  • Most species of marine organism live on the continental shelf. ( समुद्री जीवों की अधिकांश प्रजातियां महाद्वीपीय शेल्फ पर रहती हैं। )

More Sentence

  • Now, here he sat on the Continental Shelf, shaved and showered and ready for a good dinner.
  • How do people define the continental shelf?
  • Similarly we may note the caldron or small steep depression of a round outline, and the furrow or long narrow groove in the continental shelf.
  • She is examining species on the continental shelf.
  • This area on the map is the continental shelf.
  • The littoral deposits include those of the actual shore on the wash of the waves and of the surface of the continental shelf.
  • Violent crust movements always happen near the continental shelf.
  • The time limit of outer continental shelf application resulted in numbers of coastal states put forward their submissions of outer continental shelf.
  • The dispute of the delimitation of the continental shelf at the East Sea has damaged the relationship between China and Japan.
  • The palaeoplain was downwarped, creating the Great Divide and a new continental shelf on which marine sediments accumulated.  
  • Currently, oil and gas development seaward of the continental shelf is unlikely.  
  • Mammoth and mastodon teeth have been dredged from 40 sites along the continental shelf off the eastern US in water up to 120 m deep.  
  • Because Australia has a broad continental shelf it lobbied to have this zone extend to the outer edge of the margin.  
  • The islands are perched at the ragged edge of the continental shelf, right before it plunges more than 2 miles down to the abyssal plain.  
  • Their preferred habitat is the annual sea ice over the continental shelf and inter-island archipelagos that encircle the polar basin.  
  • The coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources.  
  • Until the 1970s, the continental shelf of the Beaufort Sea off Alaska was also considered barren of rocky substrates and associated epibenthos.
  • They are mostly found over the continental shelf, often over sandy bottoms.
  • Apart from the Falkland Trough, this zone lies within the continental shelf.
  • Flatbacks have the most restricted range, not venturing beyond Australia's continental shelf.
  • The Wallaby Plateau largely lies within the Australia s extended continental shelf.
  • There are currently two sets of moratoria protecting the outer continental shelf.
  • But during the continental shelf negotiations, Turkey could raise other Aegean disputes.
  • The metropolitan area, bar Norwegian Continental Shelf amounted to about 16 %.
  • The shoal is claimed by Malaysia as part of its continental shelf.
  • Distributed in continental shelf depths of all tropica and subtropical oceans, Ophichthidae can burrow in sand and mud substrates or coral reefs by pointed rayless tail tips or acute snouts .
  • Biogenetic reefs were mainly distributed along the north continental shelf and slope of the Proto -South China Sea.

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