Continental slope, seaward border of the continental shelf.
During the Cold War, new U.S. Air Force bases were constructed along the northern border of the continental U.S.; their most direct route to the Soviet Union was through the Arctic Circle.
For each cancer site/sex/age/race combination, the relative risk of residing along the northern border of the continental United States (e.g., northern Maine, Minnesota or Washington state) versus the southern border (e.g., southern Florida, Texas or Arizona) was calculated.
In our day and our country, it is the Mediterranean fruit fly, which the Department of Agriculture, ever vigilant in its protection of domestic crops, does its best to stop at the borders of the continental United States.
The continental slope spans the outer margin of the continental shelf, beginning at the continental shelf break at 60 200 m and extending to a depth of 2000 m.
With all climate effects, Nordic net export doubles, reflecting that the electricity transmission capacity at the border of the Nordic countries and continental Europe has increased by around 80%, mainly due to the demand effect (60%), but to some extent also due to the inflow effect (20%), see Fig. 6, panel a.
With these goals in mind, we assess here the current state of ecological knowledge about deep-sea species and habitats of the continental margin bordering the Gulf of Maine.
The agreement takes into account the relative positions of the archipelagos, rather than being based simply on northward extension of the continental border of Norway and Russia.
The submarine ecosystems supported by bacteria thrive along the worldwide rift zones that extend along the borders of huge continental plates at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, on the East Pacific Rise, at 21° north of the Equator off the coast of Baja California, Mex., and at a dozen other newly studied sites.
They are found from Iceland to Indonesia, but they typically occur in wooded highland areas of the continental lands bordering the Pacific Ocean.
