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It allows the sovereignty of nations to be extended to near the base of the continental slope. The modern scientific definition of a continent has four criteria: Elevation (water depth ...

The view that the continental masses are subject to some horizontal drift has been often adopted, as, for example, by the reviewer in 1915 (Scot. Geog. Mag., 31, pp. 258–60) to explain the ...