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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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 Sunda Shelf /ˈsʊndə/ is a south-eastern extension of the continental shelf of Mainland Southeast Asia. Major landmasses on the shelf include Bali...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Malaysia and Thailand. 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...

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...

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

the relatively shallow part of the ocean above the drop-off of the continental shelf, approximately 200 metres (660 ft) in depth. From the point of view...

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...

idea of the littoral zone is extended roughly to the edge of the continental shelf. Starting from the shoreline, the littoral zone begins at the spray...

which sits on the North American Plate. Continental islands are bodies of land that lie on the continental shelf of a continent. Examples are Borneo, Java...

of Sahul. The name "Sahul" derives from the Sahul Shelf, which is a part of the continental shelf of the Australian continent. During the past 18,000...

relatively warm, salty and nutrient-rich water mass that flows onto the continental shelf at certain locations. The Ross Sea is covered with ice for most of...