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    A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea. Much of these shelves...
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    The Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) is a legally defined geographic feature of the United States. The OCS is the part of the internationally recognized...
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  • The extended continental shelf, scientific continental shelf, or outer continental shelf, refers to a type of maritime area, established as a geo-legal...
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    The Norwegian continental shelf (Norwegian: Den norske kontinentalsokkelen) (abbreviated as NCS) is the continental shelf over which Norway exercises...
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    Convention on the Continental Shelf was an international treaty created to codify the rules of international law relating to continental shelves. The treaty...
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  • The continental shelf of Russia or the Russian continental shelf is the continental shelf adjacent to the Russian Federation. Geologically, the extent...
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    contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, and potentially the extended continental shelf (these components are sometimes collectively called the maritime zones)...
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    of Germany/Netherlands [1969] ICJ 1 (also known as The North Sea Continental Shelf cases) were a series of disputes that came to the International Court...
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    In oceanic biogeochemistry, the continental shelf pump is proposed to operate in the shallow waters of the continental shelves, acting as a mechanism to...
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    waters, air control and the delimitation of economic rights to the continental shelf. These issues are known as the Aegean dispute. Multiple ports are...
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    include the shallow, submerged adjacent area (the continental shelf) and the islands on the shelf (continental islands), as they are structurally part of the...
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  • UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) is the region of waters surrounding the United Kingdom, in which the country has mineral rights. The UK continental shelf includes...
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    6°S 131.7°E / -9.6; 131.7 Geologically, the Sahul Shelf (/səˈhuːl/) is a part of the continental shelf of the Australian continent, lying off the northwest...
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    The continental margin consists of three different features: the continental rise, the continental slope, and the continental shelf. Continental margins...
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    The Antarctic continental shelf is a submerged piece of the Antarctic continent that underlies a portion of the Southern Ocean — the ocean which surrounds...
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    regime of the continental shelf in Part VI (Articles 76 to 85), defining in Article 76, paragraph 1 what is understood as a continental shelf. Argentina...
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    It is also referred to as a maritime continental margin and, in colloquial usage, may include the continental shelf. The term does not include either the...
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    extended United States control to all the natural resources of its continental shelf. Other nations were quick to follow suit. Between 1946 and 1950, Chile...
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    delimitation of exclusive economic zones (EEZ) and the use of the continental shelf, The role of flight information regions (FIR) for the control of military...
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    waters). The waters and sea bottom that is not confirmed to be extended continental shelf beyond the exclusive economic zones are considered to be the "heritage...
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    Songkhla, and Yala). Malaysia and Thailand have territorial sea and continental shelf boundary agreements for the Straits of Malacca which were signed in...
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    with a given continent by either lying on the continent's adjacent continental shelf (e.g. Singapore, the British Isles) or being a part of a microcontinent...
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    delimited through a continental shelf boundary treaty in 1969 and a territorial sea boundary treaty in 1970. The continental shelf boundary between Indonesia...
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  • for display and storage Continental shelf, the extended perimeter of a continent, usually covered by shallow seas Ice shelf, a thick platform of ice...
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  • Continental Shelf Act 1964 may refer to: Continental Shelf Act 1964 (New Zealand) Continental Shelf Act 1964 (United Kingdom) This disambiguation page...
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    portion of the country is on the continental shelf of Asia while the eastern portion of the country is on the continental shelf of Australia. The central portion...
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    North Sea Continental Shelf. Special Agreement. inArchived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine 20 February 1967. North Sea Continental Shelf. Judgment...
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  • 1972 treaties was that of the "natural prolongation" of the physical continental shelf. This resulted in the boundary running significantly north of the...
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    regime of the continental shelf in Part VI (Articles 76 to 85), defining in Article 76, paragraph 1 what is understood as a continental shelf. Argentina...
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    six sections. The Coastal Plain province is differentiated from the Continental Shelf province simply based on the portion of the land mass above and below...
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