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。

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The foot of continental slope is an important terrain characteristic and is a basic evidence to get the out limit line of the expansion continental shelf right.

大陆坡脚是一项重要地形特征，可作为扩展大陆架的权利和划定其外部界线的基础。

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Business advisory firm Deloitte said the amount of drilling, as well as the number of oil and gas field deals on the UK Continental Shelf, levelled out in the first quarter of this year.

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As reserves from the continental shelf decline, the big oil companies can't afford to sit out the riskier game farther offshore.

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These scapegoats rightly pointed out that oil and gas supplies would be meaningfully boosted if restrictions on drilling and exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf and in Alaska were lifted.

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