Sea borders

As other sectors of the Apennine chain, central Apennines have been affected by various tectonic phases. Compressional events dominated from Upper Cretaceous to Lower Pliocene and generated fragmentation of the carbonate platform and intensive thrusting and folding. Extensional tectonics dominated from Middle Pliocene to present. It initially affected the Tyrrhenian Sea border and successively shifted eastward, generating intensive NW-SE faulting with development of graben-horst systems. 

The volcanic centers of the Campania Province developed inside Quaternary extensional basins along the Tyrrhenian Sea border at the intersection between NE-SW and NW-SE fault systems. The Pontine Islands form a row of volcanoes with a W-E trend, offshore the Campania Province, and along the so-called 41st Parallel Tectonic Line (Serri 1990 Bruno et al. 2000). Vulture is located at the eastern border of the Apennine compression front, in an extensional tectonic setting affecting the border of the Apulia foreland. 

The thickness of the lithosphere along the Pontine-Campania-Vulture transect increases from about 50 km along the Tyrrhenian Sea border to more than 110 km in the Apulia foreland (Calcagnile and Panza 1981). The depth of the Moho increases from about 20-25 km offshore the Tyrrhenian Sea coast to 40 km beneath the internal zones of the Apennines, to decrease to about 30 km beneath the Apulia foreland (e.g. Locardi and Nicolich 1988 Piromallo and Morelli 2003). In contrast with other zones of the Apennine chain, the sector running from the Campania Province to... 

Di Girolamo, P. (1978). Geotectonic setting of Miocene-Quaternary volcanism in and around the eastern Thyrrenian sea border (Italy) as deduced from major element geochemistry. Bull. Vokanol. 41, 229-250. 

Demarcation of the sea borders between Russia and Ukraine in the Azov and Black Seas is also not completed and there is no agreement on delimitation lines 298 km long in the Azov Sea and 22 km long in the Black Sea [8]. 

RSFSR (Krasnodard Territory) and the Ukrainian SSR was agreed upon. And that time a sea border along the Kerch Straight was made and a part of the Tuzla Island was referred to the Crimean Region. After the USSR breakup Ukraine unilaterally declared this administrative border to be a state border. 

The surface area of the inner Baltic Sea, bordered at the bottlenecks of the Danish Straits, amounts toA = 382 486 km if computed using RANGS shorelines on the WGS-84 ellipsoid (Hagen and Feistel, 2001), Equation 20.10. The absolute maximum uncertainty of the sea surface is about 10%, while the likely uncertainty lies in the range between 0.1% and 1 %. The length of the border line enclosing this surface area computed at the RANGS resolution of about 100 m is about L = 70 000 km. 

The Chattanooga shales were deposited at the southern end of a shallow sea, bordered on the southeast, south and west by a stable, nearly peneplained lowland formed on carbonates. Uranium was probably deposited syngenetically with the clay, silt and organic material that constitute the shale. The uranium is more or less evenly distributed throughout the shale, and was probably adsorbed from sea water on plant debris and clay particles. ... 

Mediterranean climates are found around the world in addition to the region bordering the Mediterranean Sea. More than half of the Mediterranean-climate regions do occur around the Mediterranean Sea. Other regions with Mediterranean... 

Sanchez AL, Horrill AD, Howard BJ, et al. 1998. Anthropogenic radionuclides in tide-washed pastures bordering the Irish Sea coast of England and Wales. Water Air Soil Pollut 106 403-424. 

The situation is further compounded by major oil and gas deposits in Northern Iraq and Azerbaijan (Caspian Sea), as well as critically important and contentious pipeline routes such as Balor-Ceyhan and Baku-Supsa. The volatility of this region can be seen even today, with the deployment of Russian troops in Chechnya. Indeed the three states that make up the geostrategic unit of the South Caucasus, - Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, two of whom share borders with Turkey, will be directly impacted by the advancement of Russian forces in Dagestan and Chechnya. 

Recognizing that nuclear materials are widely available and the terrorists interests in radiological and nuclear devices, the United States Congress appropriated 300 million to the Department of Homeland Security to install radiation detectors at U.S. borders. Through 2005, DHS had installed 470 radiation portal monitors throughout the country including mail facilities and land and sea entries into the United States. The U.S. has also supported the installation of detectors at the borders of the states of the former Soviet Union through its Departments of State,... 

Many believe in a simple solution increase exploration and drilling in other areas. There may be as much as 270 billion barrels of oil in the Caspian Sea region, a part of the former Soviet Union. To use this oil we would have to deal with countries in an unstable area. The U.S. would also compete against other nations of the world, all of which are thirsty for oil which is also essential for the production of food and the manufacture of many products. Beyond these problems is a rapidly growing world population and an area with contested borders and conflicting political and religious ideologies. 

A geographic area (for example, familial Mediterranean fever, which occurs mainly in populations bordering the Mediterranean Sea)... 

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