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Halsey L. A., Vitt D. H., and Bauer I. E. (1998) Peatland initiation during the Holocene in continental western Canada. Climat. Change 40, 315-342. 

In a relatively small continental area such as Europe, there is not much difference between what would be considered the regional scale and the continental scale. However, on most other continents there would be a difference between what is considered regional and what continental. Perhaps of greatest concern on the continental scale is that the air pollution policies of a nation are likely to create impacts on neighboring nations. Acid rain in Scandanavia has been considered to have had impacts from Great Britain and Western Europe. Japan has considered that part of their air pollution problem, especially in the western part of the country, has origins in China and Korea. Cooperation in the examination of the North American acid rain problem has existed for a long time between Canada and the United States. 

Other applications of °Thxs profiling to assess accumulation rates of sedimentary components include carbonate accumulation in the Western Equatorial Atlantic (Rtihlemann et al. 1996) biogenic and terriginous particle accumulation on the Australian continental margin (Veeh et al. 2000) sedimentation rates in the North East Atlantic (McManus et al. 1998 Thomson et al. 1993 ) (Fig. 5) sedimentation rates during key... 

The topography of the Ebro River basin determines a Mediterranean climate with continental characteristics in most of the river basin as well as a semi-arid climate in the center of the depression. At the western extreme of the basin (Pyrenees and Iberian mountains), there is an oceanic climate. The central part of the basin is isolated from the oceanic influence because of the surrounding mountains. This results in the increase of the continentality of the climate and the drastic decrease of the rainfall. In the central part of the river basin (Zaragoza, Alcaniz, and Lleida urban areas), aridity is the main climatic characteristic. 

Locations of disseminated (nonphosphorite) authigenic CFA occurrence, as well as locations of phosphorites. Areas with substantial phosphorite deposits include the East China Sea between Korea and Japan, Ceara Rise, Saanich Inlet, eastern and western equatorial Pacific, California Borderland Basins, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Labrador Sea, Long Island Sound, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic continental platform, and Iberian margin in the northeastern Atlantic. Source From Ruttenberg, K. C. (2003). Treatise on Geochemistry, Elsevier Ltd. pp. 585-643. 

Hypoxia has also been observed on the continental shelves considerably offshore. Most has been ascribed to natural coastal upwelling, such as off Peru and western Africa. But in some settings, such as coastal Oregon and New Jersey, controversy exists as to the role of anthropogenic forcing. For New Jersey, the most dramatic hypoxic episode... 

The St. George s Bay area is located within the Humber Zone of western Newfoundland the westernmost tectono-stratigraphic subdivision of the Newfoundland Appalachians. The Humber Zone represents the ancient continental margin of eastern North America (Williams 1995) and is partly bounded to the east by the Cabot Fault. 

Most of the increased capacity for virgin aluminum production for the past two and a half decades has occurred outside the continental United States. The annual growth rate foT the aluminum industry during this period is estimated at about 1.6%. The projected U.S. growth rate is about 1% per year, as contrasted with 2 % worldwide. U.S. consumption is about 50 pounds (22.5 kg) per person per year. World consumption has doubled about every 20 years. The developed nations (North America, Western Europe, Japan-Oceania) account for two-thirds of world consumption of aluminum (1991). 

Fig. 1 Continental source attribution of the ozone observed on each day of 2008 at the EMEP rural monitoring station GB0049R at Weyboume on the North Norfolk coast of eastern England using ozone labelling techniques in a global and a regional photochemical model. Key regional refers to the ozone advected directly over the local- and regional-scales to the location North America to that formed over that continent and over the North Atlantic and east Pacific Asia to that formed over that continent and over the western Pacific Europe-interc to that advected intercontinentally around latitude circles and back into Europe Tropical to that from the southern hemisphere and tropics...

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