Continental shelf
Continental shelf noun - The relatively shallow (up to 200 meters) seabed surrounding a continent.
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Continental platform and continental shelf are semantically related. in ocean floor by continent topic. In some cases you can use "Continental platform" instead a noun phrase "Continental shelf".
Continental platform
Continental shelf and continental platform are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Continental shelf" with "Continental platform", this phrases are similar.
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