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    known as 'seabeds'. The structure of the seabed of the global ocean is governed by plate tectonics. Most of the ocean is very deep, where the seabed is known...
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  • Seabed warfare is undersea warfare which takes place on or in relation to the seabed. Seabed warfare is defined as “operations to, from and across the...
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  • foreshore and seabed controversy is a debate in the politics of New Zealand. It concerns the ownership of the country's foreshore and seabed, with many Māori...
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    Seabed Constructor is a multipurpose offshore vessel owned by Swire Seabed and contracted since December 2016 to British-owned hydrographic survey company...
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  • A seabed tractor is a type of remotely operated underwater vehicle. They can be used for submarine cable laying or burial of cables or pipelines. This...
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    Bathymetry (redirect from Seabed mapping)
    μέτρον (métron) 'measure') is the study of underwater depth of ocean floors (seabed topography), lake floors, or river floors. In other words, bathymetry is...
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    Seabed mining, also known as Seafloor mining is the recovery of minerals from the seabed by techniques of underwater mining. The concept includes mining...
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  • Submarine cable (redirect from Seabed cable)
    Submarine cable is any electrical cable that is laid on the seabed, although the term is often extended to encompass cables laid on the bottom of large...
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    The Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 was an Act of Parliament in New Zealand which overruled the 2003 decision of the Court of Appeal in Ngati Apa v Attorney-General...
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    bodies such as the International Whaling Commission and the International Seabed Authority (ISA), which was established by the convention itself. United...
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    The International Seabed Authority (ISA) (French: Autorité internationale des fonds marins) is a Kingston, Jamaica-based intergovernmental body of 167...
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    The Seabed Arms Control Treaty (or Seabed Treaty, formally the Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass...
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    groups such as Greenpeace and the Deep Sea Mining Campaign claimed that seabed mining has the potential to damage deep sea ecosystems and spread pollution...
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    Seabed gouging by ice is a process that occurs when floating ice features (typically icebergs and sea ice ridges) drift into shallower areas and their...
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  • 2020. "Data centers for the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project". Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. GEBCO. Retrieved 21 June 2020. Official...
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  • effective international structure to develop, regulate, and monitor a sub-seabed repository would be extremely difficult. Beyond technical and political...
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    Aratake, a director of the Yonaguni-Cho Tourism Association, noticed some seabed formations resembling architectural structures. Shortly thereafter, a group...
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  • Acoustic seabed classification is the partitioning of a seabed acoustic image into discrete physical entities or classes. This is a particularly active...
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    stability of a geochemically active layer that forms at the seabed. Pelagic sediment type and seabed bathymetry (or geomorphology) likely influence the characteristics...
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  • The fundus is the seabed in a tidal river below low water mark. This can be owned by the foreshore owner (area between high and low water mark) and may...
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    ISSN 0967-0645. International Seabed Authority. "Exploration Contracts | International Seabed Authority". isa.org.jm. International Seabed Authority. Retrieved...
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  • has been involved in court proceedings in New Zealand related to proposed seabed mining off the Taranaki coast. Trans-Tasman Resources was established in...
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    underwater warfare. Seabed warfare is defined as "operations to, from and across the ocean floor." In general the target of seabed warfare is infrastructure...
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    of the largest fish in the Solea genus. It lives on the sandy or muddy seabed of the northern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea where it often partially...
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    artificial islands and submarine pipelines are examples of such structures. The seabed has to be able to withstand the weight of these structures and the applied...
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    High-level radioactive waste management addresses the handling of radioactive materials generated from nuclear power production and nuclear weapons manufacture...
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  • The Southern Pacific Gyre is part of the Earth's system of rotating ocean currents, bounded by the Equator to the north, Australia to the west, the Antarctic...
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    marine, subsea or offshore pipeline) is a pipeline that is laid on the seabed or below it inside a trench. In some cases, the pipeline is mostly on-land...
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    with its own boundary. Ownership of the seabed gives the country rights over all mineral resources in the seabed while ownership of the water column allows...
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    of their stability zone, which is typically hundreds of metres below the seabed. A sustained increase in sea temperature will warm its way through the sediment...
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