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Article 76 Unclos New Zealand - Law of the Sea (1233 words) |
 | The continental margin comprises the submerged prolongation of the land mass of the coastal State, and consists of the seabed and subsoil of the shelf, the slope and the rise. |
| A land mass is above sea level because of differences in the composition and density of the rocks beneath the land mass from those of the rocks of the deep ocean, and/or because of active tectonic forces that continuously drive changes in the shape of the Earth’s surface. |
| Land masses do not generally have a single characteristic rock type, but are the result of igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, and tectonic processes that form complex ‘continental’ crust, distinctly different from the crust of the deep ocean floor. |
| Geography of the Russia (1633 words) |
| The continuously populated land under permanent cultivation lies between the frozen wastes where the subsoil is permanently frozen to a depth of 1 to 1.5 feet from the surface (permafrost) and the desert where in summer everything is burned up. |
| About half of the population is concentrated in the historic lands of Eastern Slavs on about 7 percent of the entire territory between the Gulf of Finland, the Volga region, and the Central Asia. |
| Russian forest land comprises 96 percent of the total forest land of the former Soviet region. |
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