Why this elaborate analogy with plate tectonics and continental drift?

This area on the map is the continental shelf.

地图上的这一片区域都是陆棚区.

Among them , that at the continental shelf is about 60 % and in deep and super deep %.

深水、超深水的资源量也不容小觑,约占全部海洋资源量的%.

The place of the Kuroshio the continental shelf is always at the northeast area of Taiwan.

黑潮水入侵陆架的位置主要集中在台湾东北区域.

Sonar to control. The bottom is rising. Range one thousand yards to the continental shelf.

声纳呼叫驾驶室. 海底坡度开始抬升, 距大陆架一千码.

But Chinasays its zone extends to the edge of the continental shelf, almost to Japan.

而中方则认为其领海范围应延伸至其大陆架边缘, 几乎逼近日本.

She is examining species on the continental shelf.

她正在对大陆架上的物种情况进行考察.

How do people define the continental shelf?

人们怎么确定陆架的范围的?

This scientific and research project is to analyze the geological structure of the continental shelf.

这个科研项目的内容是分析陆架的地质结构.

Just off the coast , the continental shelf plunges, forming an underwater canyon.

大陆架在离海岸不远处突然下降, 形成了一个水下的峡谷.

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.

Huge glaciers that stretch over the shallow continental shelf give birth to icebergs throughout the year.

一年四季里,覆盖在浅层大陆架上的巨大冰川生成了众多冰山.

The water above the continental shelf is moved by the tides and by estuarine currents.

潮流和河口流使大陆架上的海水流动.

Beautiful scenery and unique, continental shelf is island and the mainland both scenery and ocean scenery.

风光美丽而独特, 属大陆架海岛,大陆风光与海洋风光兼备.

Jppan Sea is a vast marginal sea and is surrounded by continental shelf.

日本海是一个广阔的边缘海,四周被大陆架所围.

Another ocean current flows northeast along the steep continental shelf.

还有一股沿陡峭陆架坡向东北流动的海流.

The results strongly indicated that the lateral particle transportation continental shelf was the controlling mechanism.

此种结果显示颗粒横向搬运是主要的控制机制.

First, Congress should open the way for environmentally responsible offshore exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf.

首先, 国会应该开放在环境上可靠的外层大陆架海面开发的道路.

Violent crust movements always happen near the continental shelf.

陆坡区域的地壳经常出现剧烈的活动.

With whole continents experiencing a decline in living standards there is ample ground for pessimism.

世界各大洲生活水平都在下降,所以悲观主义有充分的依据.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the western portions of continents are especially favored by the prevailing winds.

在北半球, 大陆西部地区尤受多风之惠.