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...

The Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) is a legally defined geographic feature of the United States. The OCS is the part of the internationally recognized...

The extended continental shelf, scientific continental shelf, or outer continental shelf, refers to a type of maritime area, established as a geo-legal...

The Norwegian continental shelf (Norwegian: Den norske kontinentalsokkelen) (abbreviated as NCS) is the continental shelf over which Norway exercises...

Convention on the Continental Shelf was an international treaty created to codify the rules of international law relating to continental shelves. The treaty...

The continental shelf of Russia or the Russian continental shelf is the continental shelf adjacent to the Russian Federation. Geologically, the extent...

contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, and potentially the extended continental shelf (these components are sometimes collectively called the maritime zones)...

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...

In oceanic biogeochemistry, the continental shelf pump is proposed to operate in the shallow waters of the continental shelves, acting as a mechanism to...

waters, air control and the delimitation of economic rights to the continental shelf. These issues are known as the Aegean dispute. Multiple ports are...

include the shallow, submerged adjacent area (the continental shelf) and the islands on the shelf (continental islands), as they are structurally part of the...

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...

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...

The continental margin consists of three different features: the continental rise, the continental slope, and the continental shelf. Continental margins...

The Antarctic continental shelf is a submerged piece of the Antarctic continent that underlies a portion of the Southern Ocean — the ocean which surrounds...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Songkhla, and Yala). Malaysia and Thailand have territorial sea and continental shelf boundary agreements for the Straits of Malacca which were signed in...

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...

delimited through a continental shelf boundary treaty in 1969 and a territorial sea boundary treaty in 1970. The continental shelf boundary between Indonesia...

for display and storage Continental shelf, the extended perimeter of a continent, usually covered by shallow seas Ice shelf, a thick platform of ice...

Continental Shelf Act 1964 may refer to: Continental Shelf Act 1964 (New Zealand) Continental Shelf Act 1964 (United Kingdom) This disambiguation page...

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...

North Sea Continental Shelf. Special Agreement. inArchived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine 20 February 1967. North Sea Continental Shelf. Judgment...

1972 treaties was that of the "natural prolongation" of the physical continental shelf. This resulted in the boundary running significantly north of the...

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...

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...