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shelf break

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shelf break [′shelf ‚brāk]
(geology)
An obvious steepening of the gradient between the continental shelf and the continental slope.


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As the fish move westward, cross-shelf gullies and canyons provide avenues of deeper water leading to the shelf break and the upper continental slope, along which runs the westward-flowing Alaskan Stream.
During our work this year, we came to the new understanding that we have both an inboard and a separate outboard double shelf break.
These species were distributed at the shelf break at depths of 244 and 212 m, in the north Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands (mean weighted distances 1205 and 685 km).
 
 
 
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