Book Shelf

VII. The continental shelf

Definition of the continental shelf

In fact, these guys actually work for NASA, and they're trying to pioneer using off the shelf components, cheap things that aren't specialized that they can combine and send up into space.

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.

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.

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.

Before hyperbolic geometry, mathematicians knew about two kinds of space Euclidean space, and spherical space.

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.

Space

Programs US Space Shuttle Although its pace slowed, space exploration continued after the end of the Space Race.

Many questions have been raised, including a possible distinction between weaponization and militarization of outer space, and definitions of technical terms, such as  outer space , space weapon , space object and peaceful use of outer space .

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.

European Space Agency, Long Term Space Policy Committee, Investing in Space the Challenge for Europe (ESA SP 2000, May 1999).

Essentially, it presents our tentative definitions of terms such as outer space, outer space object and weapons in outer space.