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continental shelf
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continental shelf

Submerged edge of a continent, a gently sloping plain that extends into the ocean. It typically has a gradient of less than 1°. When the angle of the sea bed increases to 1°−5° (usually several hundred kilometres away from land), it becomes known as the continental slope.
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As the fish move westward, cross-shelf gullies and canyons provide avenues of deeper water leading to the shelf break and the upper continental slope, along which runs the westward-flowing Alaskan Stream.
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During our work this year, we came to the new understanding that we have both an inboard and a separate outboard double shelf break.
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These species were distributed at the shelf break at depths of 244 and 212 m, in the north Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands (mean weighted distances 1205 and 685 km).
An ecological analysis of rockfish (Sebastes spp.) assemblages in the ... by Rooper, Christopher N. / Fishery Bulletin
 
 
 
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