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  1. WEBMar 19, 2024 · Learn about the broad, shallow submarine terrace of continental crust that forms the edge of a continental landmass. Explore …

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    The light blue color depicts a large continental shelf of shallow ocean extending to the southeast of Zealandia's largest land masses, the South and North islands of New Zealand, and northwest towards the islands that make up New Caledonia. A continental shelf is the edge of a continent that lies under the ocean.
    During the peak of the last ice age, the world's continental shelves were mostly exposed coastal plain environments. A shelf break is a general linear trend that marks the boundary between the relatively flat continental shelf and the drop-off into deeper water on the continental slope.
    Even though they are underwater, continental shelves are part of the continent. The actual boundary of a continent is not its coastline, but the edge of the continental shelf. The widths of the continental shelves vary.
    From the break, the shelf descends into the deep ocean floor in the form of a continental slope, according to National Geographic Education (NGE). Though beneath the water, continental shelves are still part of their respective continents. Therefore, their edges define the actual boundaries of the earth's continents, not the visible coastlines.
  4. WEBFeb 15, 2021 · A continental shelf is a submerged nearshore border of a continent that slopes gradually and extends to a point of steeper descent to the ocean bottom. Continental shelves are submerged extension of the …

  5. WEBThe continental shelf is the extended perimeter of each continent that is covered by relatively shallow seas and gulfs during interglacial periods (such as the current epoch). A sea that lies over a continental shelf is …

  6. WEBJun 22, 2023 · A continental shelf is a shallow submarine terrace of continental crust that forms the continent's landmass edge. These shelves extend from the coastline of a continent to the shelf break, …