Lowered sea levels exposed the shallow continental shelf beneath the Bering Sea.
下降了的海平面使白令海底的浅大陆架露了出来。
He theorized that with the use of watercraft, people gradually colonized unglaciated refuges and areas along the continental shelf exposed by the lower sea level.
他的理论是，随着船只的使用，人们沿着因海平面下降而暴露的大陆架逐渐移居到未冻结成冰的区域。
The frequency of whale fish theft in the Bering Sea's continental shelf is increasing.
白令海大陆架上的鲸鱼盗窃案发生得越来越频繁。
Research now indicates that sizable areas of southeastern Alaska along the inner continental shelf were not covered by ice toward the end of the last Ice Age.
现在的研究表明，在最后一次冰河时期的尾声阶段，阿拉斯加东南部沿岸的内大陆架的相当大的区域并未被冰覆盖。
It had been assumed that the ice extended westward from the Alaskan/Canadian mountains to the very edge of the continental shelf, the flat, submerged part of the continent that extends into the ocean.
人们过去曾猜测，冰山从阿拉斯加和加拿大山脉向西延伸到大陆架的最边缘，也就是大陆架扁平的、延伸到海洋中的水下大陆那部分。
The Aqishan-Yamansu island-arc belt occurred on a wide continental shelf sea in the Visean Stage.
阿齐山—雅曼苏岛弧带发生在维宪期阶段的广阔大陆架海上。
Russia will have to prove that its shelf continues the Siberian continental platform in order to enlarge its territory in the Arctic Ocean.
如果俄罗斯想扩大其在北冰洋的领土，那么它就必须证明其大陆架是西伯利亚大陆的延伸。
They can often be found on the slopes of the continental shelf, though as yet they are impossibly awkward to extract.
它们能经常在大陆架的斜坡上找到，尽管目前来看其开采难度之大令人望而却步。
The crabs are moving from the deep ocean, up the continental slope to the shallower shelf areas.
蟹类正在从深海沿大路斜坡向着较浅的大陆架区域移动。
This time of year, they should be foraging from the sea ice floating over the productive waters of the continental shelf.
往年这个时候，它们应该在漂浮在这片大陆架地区食物丰富的海域上的冰面上捕食。
In 1945, though, the United States unilaterally claimed jurisdiction over the natural resources of its continental shelf.
虽然如此，但是1945年，美国单方面声称对其大陆架的自然资源拥有权限。
From the shore line, out 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。
It must then, like all the states that have now made their claims, submit copious scientific evidence to show that the seabed in question is indeed continental shelf.
到时候，这些国家和那些发出声明的国家一样，必定会提出丰富的科学证据来证明那些有争议的海床实际上是大陆架。
Another dispute is around the island of Spitsbergen, on which Russia has had mining rights since 1920. Norway says it owns the continental shelf around it.
另一纠纷就是斯匹卑尔根岛之争，俄罗斯宣称自1920年开始就有用那里的开矿权，俄挪威则称挪威拥有那里的环大陆架地区。
Topographically, we may consider the coastal plain to be a terrestrial analog of the continental shelf.
从地形角度讲我们可以把沿岸平原看成是大陆架在陆上的类似构造。
Unlike most areas of the world, the shallower waters on the Antarctic continental shelf are actually slightly colder than the deeper waters of the Southern Ocean.
和世界上大部分区域不同，南极大陆架的浅水区域实际上要比南印度洋的深水区稍微冷一些。
Earth has more than enough water to completely fill the ocean basins, and the rest of it spreads onto edges of the continents, areas known as the continental shelf.
地球上的水量比充满洋盆所需的水量要多，剩余的部分分布在大陆的边缘，就是我们称为大陆架的地方。
Russia, a signatory in 1997, already has used the treaty's legal authority to assert its rights to mineral riches on its continental shelf in the Arctic.
于1997年签署该条约的俄罗斯已经开始利用条约赋予的合法权力来主张其对自己部分北冰洋大陆架矿产资源的所有权。
It was surely with this in mind that Russia, in 2001 the first country to submit a continental-shelf claim, made a bid to extend its rights in both the Pacific and the Arctic oceans.
正因如此，俄国在2001年成为的一个提交大陆架声明的国家，要求扩大自己在太平洋和北极洋的权利。
Lobsters live on rocky, sandy, or muddy bottoms from the shoreline to beyond the edge of the continental shelf.
龙虾生活在大陆架边缘海岸处的岩石，沙土，或泥底。
The ban, which has been in effect since 1981, covers more than 80 percent of the U.S. coastline and the outer continental shelf.
这项禁令是1981年生效的。禁令涵盖了美国超过百分之80以上的海岸线和大陆架地区。
On the average the continental shelf is about 70 km wide. One much of the Pacific Coast it is relatively narrows, only a few tens of kilometers across.
平均来说，大陆架约为70公里宽，在部分太平洋海岸其大陆架较窄，只有几十公里宽。
As a consequence, the animals of the Antarctic continental shelf have been free for millions of years from the attentions of predators, such as crabs and sharks, that cannot cope with the cold.
因此，在不能适应寒冷的肉食动物如海蟹、鲨鱼的关注下，南极大陆上的动物已经自由自在了几百万年。
First, the chilly Malvinas Current, a north-flowing branch of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, flows north along the edge of the South American continental shelf.
首先，环南极洋流的一支——马尔维纳斯寒流向北流动，流经南美洲大陆架的边缘。
The continental shelf here is about 600 meters (2,000 feet) deep, and as the warm water from the open ocean meets the shelf, it continues to flow toward land and rises beneath the floating glacier.
在这个地方的大陆架是大约600米深，当从外面来的暖流碰上大陆架，就会沿大陆架向上升到浮着的冰川下面。
The continental shelf here is about 600 meters (2, 000 feet) deep, and as the warm water from the open ocean meets the shelf, it continues to flow toward land and rises beneath the floating glacier.
在这个地方的大陆架是大约600米深，当从外面来的暖流碰上大陆架，就会沿大陆架向上升到浮着的冰川下面。
But there will still be rich pickings in the extended continental shelf that is up for grabs by May 13th.
但在5月13日之前，仍然是各国申请延伸大陆架、抓住这片丰富海底宝藏的最后机会。
How much longer it will be before they invade the rich uplands of the continental shelf is hard to say.
它们多久后会入侵富饶的大陆坡高地还不好说。
We hope the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, as a body of the Convention, will properly handle the issue.
我们希望大陆架界限委员会作为《公约》机构，妥善处理这一问题。
We hope the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, as a body of the Convention, will properly handle the issue.
我们希望大陆架界限委员会作为《公约》机构，妥善处理这一问题。
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