continental shelf

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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