continental shelf

However Sheinbaum's government contends that Trump's order applies only to the US portion of the continental shelf.

Tides will now be lifting it up and down, and where it is touching the continental shelf, it will grind backwards and forwards, eroding the rock and ice.

"He says that he will call it the Gulf of America on its continental shelf," Sheinbaum previously said when Trump signed the executive order.

"He says that he will call it the Gulf of America on its continental shelf," Sheinbaum said last week.

In 2004 one called A38 grounded on its continental shelf, leaving dead penguin chicks and seal pups on beaches as massive ice chunks blocked their access to feeding grounds.