continental slope

基本解釋

Crustal movement is very active on the continental slope.
陸坡是地殼活動(dòng)十分活躍的部位。
The crabs are moving from the deep ocean, up the continental slope to the shallower shelf areas.
蟹類正在從深海沿大路斜坡曏著較淺的大陸架區(qū)域移動(dòng)。
This continental slope usually starts at a place somewhere near the 100-fatheom mark and in the course of a few hundred miles reaches the true ocean floor at 2,500-3,500 fathoms.
大陸架慢坡一般是從差不多100英尋水深的地方開始的，一直延伸到幾百英裡遠(yuǎn)深達(dá)2，500至3，500的地方，那裡才是真正的海底。

The mapping was primarily done along the continental slope, where the North American continent ends and drops into the Atlantic Ocean basin.
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