How to use in-sentence of “Continental shelf”:
+ This, in the Devonian, was a united North America and western Europe and the continental shelf areas around it.
+ Evidently the main advantage lies in getting away from the starfish, which are very numerous on inshore and continental shelf habitats.
+ A continental shelf is the part of the continent that is under water.
+ Portland limestone was formed in a shallow, warm, sub-tropical sea on the continental shelf of what is now western Europe.
+ The deep water between those two large continental shelf areas was — for over 50 million years — a barrier that kept the flora and fauna of Australia separated from that of Asia.
+ The coccolith all-time peak was in the warm inland and continental shelf seas of the Cretaceous period.
+ These sharks are absent from November to March, suggesting a migration beyond the continental shelf during the winter months.
