The Continental Shelf: An Underwater Frontier
- ISBN-10
- 0875183018
- ISBN-13
- 9780875183015
- Series
- The Continental Shelf
- Category
- Continental shelf
- Pages
- 108
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986
- Author
- Alice Thompson Gilbreath
Description
Discusses the shelves under the world's oceans at the shoreline--the creatures that live on them, their potential for providing food for man, the dangers of pollution to shelf use, and efforts to preserve their value for the future.
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Other editions
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- 1986
- 219 pages
- Paperback
- Center for Ocean Management Studies, University of Rhode Island
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