Offshore drilling platforms extend the search for oil to the ocean's continental shelves—those gently sloping submarine regions at the edges of the continents.

海底钻井平台将寻找石油的区域延伸到了海洋大陆架——大陆边缘那些平缓倾斜的海底区域。

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This ice is often held in place by shallow ocean bottoms or continental shelves.

这些冰层常常固定在浅海的海底或者大陆架上。

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Much of the activity between the continental shelves takes place deep underwater at the mid-ocean ridges.

大部分的大陆架的活动发生在深水下的大洋洋底的海脊。

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To reduce America's dependence on foreign sources of oil, Huckabee would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the continental shelves to drilling.

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Encouraged by Arctic governments and dwindling reserves elsewhere, oil companies are flocking north like migrating geese to explore the continental shelves of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia.

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Neither UNCLOS nor the Convention on Biological Diversity regulates the use of living resources found beyond continental shelves or Exclusive Economic Zones. (Within these Zones, the related provisions of UNCLOS, which favour essentially national interests, would apply.) Living resources in the deep seabed were unknown when UNCLOS was being negotiated.

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