Continental Shelf Limits The Scientific and Legal Interface [Hardcover]

Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea lays down the rules and regulations governing claims to a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles for the 130 coastal States and entities that have ratified or acceded to it. This book is designed to help those coastal States implement the provisions of Article 76, covering the technical issues involved and explaining the interface between the legal concepts contained within the article. It covers all aspects that will have to be considered by a coastal State if it wishes to make a claim under the Convention, including the characteristics of continental margins, distance determination, bathymetric data collection. geological and geophysical techniques, and boundary conditions.

Contributors
PART I: SETTING THE SCENE
1. Introduction,Peter J. Cook, Chris M. Carleton
2. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,Jean-Peirre Levy
3. Legal Aspects of the Continental Shelf,Robert W. Smith, George Taft
4. Characteristics of Continental Margins,Philip A. Symonds, Olav Eldholm, Jean Mascle, Gregory F. Moore
5. Resources of the Continental Margin and International Law,Victor Prescott
PART II: METHODOLOGY
6. Geodetic Techniques,Alan Dodson, Terry Moore
7. Historical Methods of Positioning at Sea,Adam J. Kerr
8. Satellite Positioning Methods,Chris Hill, Terry Moore, Vidal Ashkenazi
9. Historical Methods of Depth Measurement,Steve Shipman, Anthony Laughton
10. Present-Day Methods of Depth Measurement,John Hughes Clark
11 Interpretation of Bathymetry.David Monahan
12. Seismic Reflection and Refraction Methods,Shigeru Kasuga, Asuza Nishizawa, Yasuhiko Ohara, Katsuhiro Kusunoki, Tadahiko Katsura
13. Gravity and Magnetic Methods,Richard M. Carruthers, John D. Cornwell
14. Geological Techniques,Dennis A. Ardus, Alister C. Skinner, HerlC7