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| -Contonental shelf represent cyan color |
- The sea bed surrounding a continent at depths of up to about 200 m (100 fathoms), at the edge of which the continental slope drops steeply to the ocean floor.
- The continental shelf is associated coastal plain.
- Shelf was exposed glacial periods.
- Now submerged under shallow/shelf seas & gulfs during interglacial periods.
- The continental margin, between the continental shelf & the abyssal plain.
- It comprises a steep continental slope.
- Sediment at the base of the slope, called the continental rise.
- Extending as far as 500 km from the slope.
- It consists thick sediments deposited by turbidity currents from the shelf & slope.
- Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the name continental shelf was given a legal definition as the stretch of the" sea bed adjacent" to the shores of a particular country to which it belongs.
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| Southeastern United States continental shelf |
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