. The Earth beneath the sea : History . erN 4°E Fig. 4. Continental shelf near Bergen, Norway, with longitudinal depressions. Transverse depression at entrance to fjords. (After H. Holtedahl, 1955.) Shepard, in Trask, 1939; Shepard and Emery, 1941; Emery, 1954, 1960). The basins are often steep-sided troughs. The intervening ranges, which run parallel to the coast in a NW-SE direction, include islands with fringing submerged shelves. Finally, a typical continental slope is found after the outermost ridge is crossed. There are various elevations on the continental shelves, of the same types as
. The Earth beneath the sea : History . erN 4°E Fig. 4. Continental shelf near Bergen, Norway, with longitudinal depressions. Transverse depression at entrance to fjords. (After H. Holtedahl, 1955.) Shepard, in Trask, 1939; Shepard and Emery, 1941; Emery, 1954, 1960). The basins are often steep-sided troughs. The intervening ranges, which run parallel to the coast in a NW-SE direction, include islands with fringing submerged shelves. Finally, a typical continental slope is found after the outermost ridge is crossed. There are various elevations on the continental shelves, of the same types as those rising from the adjacent mainland. The hummocky topography in the Gulf of Maine strongly resembles the glaciated landscape in North-east America.
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