Atlantic Shelf Small 320×95 Medium 640×190 Large 1024×304 Download Tiff Original 2400×713 | (256.2 KB) Description "Profile of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and adjoining land in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, showing the continental shelf." -Gilbert, 1910 Keywords Atlantic Ocean, continental shelf, oceanic basin, oceanography diagram, plain Galleries Hydrology Source: Grove Karl Gilbert and Albert Perry Brigham An Introduction to Physical Geography (New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1910)