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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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