continental shelf
Noun
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Noun
continental shelf
- (oceanography) The outer area of a land mass covered by a shallow sea that extends into open ocean.
- French: plateau continental
- German: Schelf, Kontinentalschelf, Kontinentalsockel, Festlandssockel
- Italian: piattaforma continentale
- Portuguese: plataforma continental
- Russian: континента́льный шельф
- Spanish: plataforma continental
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