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Which of the following statements with regard to the continental shelf is not correct?
Shelves are absent close to plate boundaries
They are highly sedimented
They have abrupt falls towards the continental slopes
They are rich fishing areas
A continental shelf is the edge of a continent that lies under the ocean. A continental shelf extends from the coastline of a continent to a drop-off point called the shelf break. From the break, the shelf descends toward the deep ocean floor in what is called the continental slope. They are highly sedimented.
People have depended on the continental shelf for thousands of years to provide 90% of the fisheries production in the world. – Seamounts and Continental Shelves – The Ocean’s Unprotected Treasure Vaults The continental rise is an underwater feature found between the continental slope and the abyssal plain. Continental rise is absent or relatively small close to plate boundaries sediment gravity flows generally transport sediment into the trench instead of across it to the ocean floor.
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