Geology of the United States seafloor: The view from GLORIA: By J. V. Gardner, M. E. Field & D. C. Twichell. Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 0-521-43310-X

Geology of the United States' seafloor:

Geology of the United States' seafloor: The view from GLORIA: J.V. Gardner, M.E. Field and D.C. Twichell (Editors). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, xii + 364 pp., hardcover, £85.00, ISBN 0-521-43310

✍ Charles E. McClennen 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 219 KB

The United States EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) is the area situated between 3 and 200 nautical miles from the U.S. coast. This submerged territory, "30 percent larger than the total onshore area of the United States" (p. xi) was claimed in 1983. In the next eight years scientists surveyed the area