abstract:A submerged continent is a continental mass, extensive in size, but mainly undersea. The terminology is used by some paleogeologists and geographers in reference to some land masses.
Ithad beenassumedthat the ice extendedwestwardfrom the Alaskan/Canadianmountainstotheveryedgeof the continental shelf, the flat, submergedpart of the continentthatextendsintothe ocean.