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Continental shelf of the United States
Overview of the U.S. continental shelves / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The continental shelf of the United States is the total of the continental shelves adjacent to the United States. In marine geology, it is the elevated seabed near US coasts; in the political sense, it is the area claimed by the United States as sovereign, according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.[1]
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