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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Five more oilfields were producing oil from the North Sea continental shelf in 1976, including the massive Brent and Alpha fields.
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Most species of marine organism live on the continental shelf .
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The government has announced the opening of the first tender for exploration on its continental shelf .
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The shallow drilling programme is central to the systematic survey of the continental shelf .
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The southern component spreads over the continental shelf .
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The submarine extension of a continent is called the continental shelf .
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This basin, called the Chicxulub crater, formed on the continental shelf in shallow water.