and near its lower reaches there is a long tailing-off which is almost certainly the result of material transported out to deep water after being eroded from the continental masses.
在這個(gè)地帶的低處是很長(zhǎng)的一段尾沙地段,基本上可以斷定這個(gè)地段是大陸塊體上侵蝕下來(lái)的物質(zhì)被水沖到深水處形成的。