Tag: Continental

The 30km long Bosphorus strait connects the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara. It’s one of the busiest waterways in the world and splits Istanbul in half with Europe on one side and Asia on the other. Once a year, for only two-hours, the tankers, cargo ships and thousands of commuter vessels are...

Around the coasts of all the land masses, between low-tide level at about the 100-fathom mark is a shallow platform known as the continental shelf, from which the higher parts project as islands. The shelf slopes gently seaward with an angle of less than one degree. It is well developed off Western ...