Definition(s)


Continental Margin

The continental margin comprises the submerged prolongation of the land mass of the coastal State, and consists of the sea-bed and subsoil of the shelf, the slope and the rise. It does not include the deep ocean floor with its oceanic ridges or the subsoil thereof.

Source: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 1982. Legislation 

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