Continental Shelf facts
While investigating facts about Continental Shelf, I found out little known, but curios details like:
On 1961 Brazil and France had a conflict named "The Lobster War", where Brazil argued that they had the right to fish lobsters because "they crawl at the continental shelf" while France contested that "Lobsters swim".
It is believed that the Coral Sea's basin formed as far back as 58 million years ago. It formed as the Queensland continental shelf rose and formed the Great Dividing Range.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 12 of the best facts about Continental Shelf I managed to collect.
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The White Sea is located on a continental shelf, with a sea bottom that is badly broken.
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The Yellow Sea is believed to have formed when the sea levels rose after the last ice age and flooded a section of the continental shelf.
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There have been deposits of gas and oil discovered under the East China Sea's continental shelf resulting in disputes.
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There are several submerged banks located between Timor Trough and the continental shelf, called the Big Bank Shoals.
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Approximately half of the Scotia Sea stands above the continental shelf.
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The seabed under the Celtic Sea is part of Europe's continental shelf. This portion is called the Celtic Shelf.
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The Chukchi Sea Shelf makes up the easternmost continental shelf in Russia and the westernmost continental shelf of the United States.
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It is believed that the buried canyons formed when grounded icebergs reached the continental shelf edge.
