Without the weight of water to support their sides, the continental shelves would collapse.

如果没有海水支撑大陆架，大陆架就会崩塌。

" They mostly forage over the continental shelf and don't go far out to sea" .

" 它们大多在大陆架上觅食，不会到远海。"

Its continental shelf is believed to have deposits of metals, including copper, zinc, cobalt and rare earths.

据信，它的大陆架上有金属矿藏，包括铜、锌、钴和稀土。

Submarine drones uncovered an extensive system of underwater " rivers" of dense, salty water along Australia's continental shelf.

海底无人机在澳大利亚大陆架沿岸一个巨大的地下水“河流”系统，流着的是稠密的含盐水。

Argentina accuses Chile of encroaching into its territorial waters and trying to seize part of the continental shelf. Officials described the move as unacceptable.

阿根廷控智利侵略其领海以及试图占领部分大陆架。相关官员称此举不可接受。

These include areas along continental shelf formations where ice is attached to the shore, the National Institute of Polar Research said in a statement.

包括沿大陆架区域，那里的冰附着在海岸上，美国国家极地研究所在声明中称。

However, the Turkish government believes the waters, in which natural gas is being drilled on a trial basis, belong to the Turkish continental shelf.

然而，土耳其政府认为这片正在进行天然气钻探试验的海域属于土耳其大陆架。

It comes from the oil and gas resources that was found in the late 1960s on the Norwegian continental shelves.

它来自 20 世纪 60 年代末在挪威大陆架的石油和天然气资源。

And from Australia: Submarine drones uncovered an extensive system of underwater " rivers" of dense, salty water along Australia's continental shelf.

来自澳大利亚： 潜艇无人机沿着澳大利亚大陆架一个广泛的水下“ 河流” 系统，该系统由浓密的咸水组成。

And it only approached the Asian Sunda continental shelf in the west around 20 to 25 million years ago in the late Oligocene or early Miocene epoch.

而且，它只有在大约 2,000 万到 2,500 万年前的渐新世晚期或中新世早期和在西面的亚洲巽他古大陆接壤。

While " inner-coast" transients stalk shallow waters near the shore, " outer-coast" transients hunt in the deep open waters along canyons at the edge of the continental shelf.

“内海岸”过客鲸在海岸附近的浅水区潜行，而“外海岸”过客鲸则在大陆架边缘峡谷沿岸的开阔水域中捕猎。

The country says because the North Pole is connected to the continental shelf of Greenland, and because Greenland is a Danish autonomous territory, the North Pole is Denmark`s.

这个国家表示因为北极与格林兰岛的大陆架相连，而且格林兰岛又是丹麦属地，因此北极属于丹麦。

From the shore line, out to a distance which may be anywhere from a few miles to a few hundred miles, runs the gentle slope of the continental shelf, geologically part of the continents.

从海岸线向大海延伸几英里到几百英里的区域是大陆架慢坡，从地质学上来说，它是大陆的一部分。

The depth of the open ocean varies considerably  but the majority of it falls from the continental shelf down to depths of between 3,000 and 6000  meters, in what are known as abyssal plains.

公海的深度差异很大， 但大部分从大陆架延伸到 3,000 至 6,000 米深的地区，即所谓的深海平原。

But these continents, in terms of a strict geological definition  actually extend outward some way into the sea, in the form of shallow continental shelves, before  suddenly dropping down into the abyssal plains of the deep oceans.

但按照严格的地质定义，这些大陆实际上以浅大陆架的形式向外延伸到海中，然后突然坠入深海平原。