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Summary Of: Continental shelf

Though the continental shelf is treated as a... The continental shelf and the slope are part of the... The relatively accessible continental shelf is the best understood part of the ocean floor... marine nations that signed the Convention on the Continental Shelf drawn up by the UN...

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