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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...

mid-ocean ridges. The continental margin consists of three different features: the continental rise, the continental slope, and the continental shelf...

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)...

The Northeastern United States Continental Shelf (NEUS) is the large marine ecosystem designated by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

The Siberian Shelf is a coastal shelf in the Arctic Ocean and is the largest continental shelf of the Earth, a part of the continental shelf of Russia....

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

highly productive nearshore waters, which then move toward the mid-continental shelf as they mature, and move completely offshore around full maturation...

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

family are marine, inhabiting shallow and offshore waters from the mid-continental shelf, ranging from depths to 1000 meters deep. Members of this family...

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

and up to the Norwegian Sea. Typically, this species is found in mid-continental shelf areas deeper than 150 meters (490 ft); however, there have been...

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...

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...

deposited comparatively close to the shore on what is now known as the continental shelf. This suggested that the oceans were a permanent feature of the Earth's...

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...

The Harvard Classics, originally marketed as Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, is a 50-volume series of classic works of world literature, important...

marked by transitional lithosphere. Continental rifting forms new ocean basins. Eventually the continental rift forms a mid-ocean ridge and the locus of extension...

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...

westward along the southern flank, mostly emptying into the Mid-Atlantic Bight (the continental shelf ocean between Cape Hatteras and Georges Bank).[citation...