Continental Shelf Embayments of the Eastern Margin of the Philippines: Lamon Bay Stratification & Circulation

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold L. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Eastern Margin

scholarly journals Should the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Be Classified as Islands or Rocks? An Examination in Light of the South China Sea Arbitration Award

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-349
Author(s):  
Fayokemi Ayodeji Olorundami
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
South China ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Dash Line ◽  
Senkaku Islands

Abstract In July 2016, an Arbitral Tribunal handed down its award in the South China Sea dispute between the Philippines and China. In addition to considering the legal status of the controversial nine-dash line, the Tribunal also provided the first judicial interpretation of Article 121 of the LOSC, thereby shedding light on what maritime features may be regarded as islands and not rocks within the meaning of that article, and therefore entitled to an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and continental shelf. This article considers the decision reached by the Tribunal, and the views expressed in the literature, applying them to an analysis that attempts to answer whether the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands (sovereignty over which is disputed by China and Japan) in the East China Sea would qualify as islands, and thus entitled to an EEZ and as a continental shelf, or as rocks and therefore not so entitled.

GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE AREA OF THE PERTH BASIN, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Geophysics ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1026-1052 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. V. Hawkins ◽  
J. F. Hennion ◽  
J. E. Nafe ◽  
R. F. Thyer
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Structural Control ◽  
Seismic Profile ◽  
Sediment Thickness ◽  
The West ◽  
Western Margin ◽  
Eastern Margin ◽  
Geophysical Investigations ◽  
Southward Extension

Marine geophysical investigations in the area of the Perth Basin lead to proposed changes in the structural control of the basin and of the structure within the basin. The main north‐south graben structure appears to be crossed by a series of major faults which trend roughly north‐northwest. A broadening of the basin to a width of just over 100 km (65 miles) to the west in the area between Perth and Harvey, which was earlier indicated by aeromagnetic results, appears to be produced by two such faults: The southern fault does not cross the graben but merges with it in the form of the Dunsborough Fault; the proposed northern fault crosses the graben to produce a break in continuity of the Darling Fault which marks the eastern margin of the basin. The northern fault appears to have caused a division of the main sedimentation axis of the Perth Basin into two near parallel axes within the widened section of the basin. The Dandaragan Trough which forms the eastern axis now appears to terminate at the Darling Fault between Pinjarra and Harvey. The western axis continues to the southeast into the Bunbury Trough. This suggests the presence of a basement and anticlinal ridge which may produce favourable traps for oil or gas within the basin. The western margin of the basin appears to be formed by an eastward‐tilted basement with associated faulting which, in places, assumes major proportions. A tentative estimate of sediment thickness of about 5.7 km (18,600 ft) is obtained from a seismic profile near the axis of sedimentation on the extension of the Bunbury Trough. This figure is our preferred interpretation, but it would have to be reduced to about 3.5 km should a 5‐km/sec layer turn out to be basement. The southward extension of the Darling Fault onto the narrow continental shelf appears to be observed with a throw of two km to the south of Pt. D’Entrecasteau.

South China Sea

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-191
Author(s):  
Nguyễn Hồng Thao
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
South China ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
China Sea ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Peaceful Settlement ◽  
Maritime Disputes ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Malaysia’s partial submission to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on its extended continental shelf beyond 200 nm limit made in December 2019 sparked a new legal battle of diplomatic notes on the South China Sea (scs) from claimant States (Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Viet Nam) and non-claimant States (Australia, Germany, France, Japan, Indonesia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States). It has greater volume and significance compared to the first exchange of notes in 2009 – 2011. This article examines the impact of diplomatic notes among claimants on the prospect for the peaceful settlement of the maritime disputes in the scs.

Taxonomic and biogegraphic review of the Australian endemic genus Nannamoria (Gastropoda : Volutidae) with the description of a new bathyal species

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
RC Willan
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Outer Continental Shelf ◽  
Endemic Genus ◽  
Eastern Margin ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Biogeographic Region ◽  
North Eastern

Nannamoria Iredale, 1929, is redefined and monophyly is restored by reinstatement of Paramoria McMichael, 1960, and removal of Volutoconus capricorneus Wilson, 1972. Nannamoria is considered to be representative of the Eastern Overlap Zone rather than the Southern Australian Biogeographic Region. Nannamoria ranya, sp. nov., is described from the outer continental shelf and slope off north-eastern Australia. It occurs closer to the eastern margin of the Australian Continental Shelf than any other species of volute.

Merits Award Relating to Historic Rights in the South China Sea Arbitration: An Appraisal

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinmin MA
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
International Law ◽  
South China ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Exclusive Economic Zone ◽  
The South ◽  
Customary International Law ◽  
China Sea

AbstractThis paper provides an assessment of the Tribunal’s Award on the merits relating to the Philippines’ Submissions No. 1 and 2. First, it argues that the Convention is not the sole legal source of maritime rights. Second, the Tribunal erroneously infers from Article 311 that the Convention prevails over customary international law. Meanwhile, Article 293 does not terminate rules of general international law that are incompatible with the Convention. Third, the Tribunal, by deciding that historic rights under general international law have been superseded by the regimes of exclusive economic zone and continental shelf established under the Convention, fails to draw a distinction between the two separate legal regimes, namely the Convention and general international law. Fourth, as one of the “matters not regulated by the Convention”, historic rights should be governed by, and have been well established in, general international law.

‘Deliberate Ambiguity’ and the Demise of China’s Claim to Historic Rights in the South China Sea

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-182
Author(s):  
Robert Beckman
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
South China ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Exclusive Economic Zone ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Dash Line ◽  
Economic Zone

The Award of the Arbitral Tribunal in the Philippines v China case was a resounding victory for the Philippines as well as a bold and potentially landmark decision. The key issue for the Philippines was whether China could lawfully claim historic rights to resources within the nine-dash line on Chinese maps, if such areas are within the exclusive economic zone or on the continental shelf of the Philippines under unclos. In deciding this issue the Tribunal had to address the fact the exact legal basis for China’s claim to historic rights in the South China Sea, and the nature and scope of such claims, was ambiguous. The Tribunal addressed the issue of ambiguity in its award on jurisdiction, and ruled that it could draw inferences from China’s conduct in determining the nature of its claim to historic rights. In its Award on the Merits the Tribunal ruled that unclos allocated rights and jurisdiction to the natural resource in the oceans, and that under unclos, coastal States have sovereign rights to explore and exploit the natural resources in their exclusive economic zone and continental shelf. Consequently, whatever historic rights China claimed to resources in the South China Sea, those rights were extinguished when UNCLOS entered into force insofar as they were a claim to resources that are now in the maritime zone of other States.

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