A shore party of 34 spent two seasons exploring on and around the Ross Island Shelf.
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Perched on an island shelf in the Pacific, Japan, we are told, has more than 300 earthquakes a year.
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It is also common phenomenon swell : cold currents coming down from the Arctic seabed and emerge when they hit the island shelf.
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The Geological Society has a book entry which includes a paper on " Rhodolith facies evolution and burial as a response to Holocene transgression at the Pontian Islands shelf break, D . Basso, C . Morbioli, C . Corselli " ( Cool-Water Carbonates : Depositional Systems and Palaeoenvironmental Controls, GSL Special Publications, 11 March 2006 ) at