Examples of offshore

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The cover depicts an offshore drilling platform, suggesting that the content refers to industrial application in the strict sense.
Both onshore and offshore basin fill architecture shows no clear evidence for active faulting in strata overlying tectono-stratigraphic unit one.
Of these, a significant volume has been dispersed offshore.
A 1-l water sample was collected in a sterile bottle monthly at each sampling site (2-3 km offshore each estuary).
The study area spatially overlapped between offshore oil platforms and natural shrimp mating grounds.
Cretaceous storm coquinas analyses of faunal and lithological components demonstrate their derivation from offshore lagoonal facies.
Related to these price-cost peculiarities is the phenomenon of offshore manufacture.
Supertankers, plus offshore oil rigs, inject more than 100 million barrels of oil into the sea each year.
A number of trawlers were converted and a number of new purse seiners, designed to fish farther offshore, were constructed.
Large swell waves may be present with an absolutely calm sea or even with light offshore winds in the opposite direction.
On very few coasts is there sufficient depth of water offshore to allow for merely vertical displacement of the shoreline following a rejuvenation.
Offshore areas are now covered using data available from airborne and shipborne geophysical surveys, although the quality of the coverage is variable.
Large structures for offshore exploration must be able to withstand the forces due to powerful storm waves.
There is a good balance of onshore field observation, offshore seismic data and analogue or mathematical modelling.
Non-human influence has also led to serious declines in seabirds that breed on offshore islands.
The morning's surf, breaking offshore and dumping heavily inshore, was clearly unmanageable but preparations went forward in hopes of an improvement.
Inshore-offshore differences also occur in parasites of seabirds.
Intermediary waste collection points were almost always covered, and the only operational rubbish tip was located offshore.
Hence, it is suggested that juveniles fed further offshore than did larvae, so competition for food is seemingly alleviated by space budgeting.
Cost differentials between countries can arise because of lower profit margin, or exchange rate differences favouring the offshore producer.
Coastal zones are highly favoured for settlements by human communities, with often deleterious effects for offshore marine communities.
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