Book Shelf

VII. The continental shelf

Definition of the continental shelf

My father made a shelf for me.

He placed the book on the shelf.

The bottle is on the upper shelf.

To the south lies the European continental shelf and the North Sea, to the east is the Eurasian continental shelf with the Barents Sea.

Christmas day it was out on the shelf edge.

The continental shelf and the work of the Commission

Its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, which is currently under examination by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, is estimated to be 953,525 square kilometres.

Indeed, without implementation, the recommendations will only gather dust on the shelf.

Last year, Australia lodged with the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf its submission on the outer limit of the shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the territorial sea baseline.

Article 2 of the Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf states that the coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources .

It also bought a large majority of BP's Gulf of Mexico Shelf properties.

Modern accelerometers are often small micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS), and are indeed the simplest MEMS devices possible, consisting of little more than a cantilever beam with a proof mass (also known as seismic mass ).

In other words, I ve taken off the shelf components, and I ve made a spectroscope.

Some of these rascals are indeed, to put it gently, past their shelf life.

Most of Ross Ice Shelf is in the Ross Dependency claimed by New Zealand.

The van der Waals forces, which are strongest from 1 nm to 10 nm above the surface, or any other long range force that extends above the surface acts to decrease the resonance frequency of the cantilever.

The Grand Canyon Skywalk is a transparent horseshoe shaped cantilever bridge and tourist attraction in Arizona near the Colorado River on the edge of a side canyon in the Grand Canyon West area of the main canyon.

If that happens, withdrawal plans will be returned to the shelf probably for many years.

Information reported by the Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

We note the important work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

(i) Mr. Peter F. Croker, Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

From my perspective, today s off the shelf computer programs come awfully close to meeting Turing s test.

The contingency plan remained on the shelf because of the lack of casualties among Israeli civilians.

Each cheese and the shelf underneath it is then cleaned manually or robotically every seven days.

However, there are no fixed platforms operating in the Exclusive Economic Zone Continental shelf of Mauritius.

And donor blood must be kept in cold storage, where it has a 28 day shelf life.

We note with satisfaction the progress made by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf

The ice drilling project on the north eastern corner of the Amery ice shelf near Davis Station continued.

Voters will learn to compromise, replacing tailor made niche parties with a couple of solid off the shelf options.

Modus operandi for the consideration of a submission made to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

Kuwait is also party to the Protocol concerning Marine Pollution Resulting from Exploration and Exploitation of the Continental Shelf.

And Orion is really one of the only, if not the only, off the shelf technologies that could do something.

(b) Desktop study or other means to make an assessment of the nature of the continental shelf and its limits

The islands are located in the South Atlantic Ocean, on the Patagonian Shelf, about east of Patagonia in southern Argentina.

The Chairman of the Commission had invited representatives of GRID Arendal to make a presentation of its continental shelf facility.

Reference was made to the Truman Proclamation in one case considered by the Court, the North Sea Continental Shelf case.

We are pleased to note the progress in the work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

But it's acoustically engineered to focus the sound into the house and back to the stage. And here's an acoustic shelf.

(b) Desktop study or other means to make an initial assessment of the nature of the continental shelf and its limits

The plans are already on the table, or at least on the shelf, waiting for the G 8 funding to arrive.

In 1994 Calgene attained approval to commercially release the Flavr Savr tomato, a tomato engineered to have a longer shelf life.