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The gently sloping seabed of the shallow water nearest to a continent, covering about 45 miles from the shore and deepening over the sloping sea floor to an average depth of 400 ft. It continues until it reaches the continental slope. The continental shelf contains most of the important fishing grounds and a range of resources, including gas and oil, sand and gravel. However, the shelf is, in general, a structural extension of the continent, and so may also be a source of minerals found in that region, such as tin, gold and platinum. (Source: WRIGHT)

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Brown R, Summerfield M, Gleadow A, Gallagher K, Carter A, Beucher R, Wildman M 2014. Intracontinental deformation in southern Africa during the late Cretaceous. Journal of African Earth Sciences In Press

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X14001733

Hoal BG 1993. The Proterozoic Sinclair Sequence in southern Namibia: intracratonic rift or active continental margin setting?. Precambrian Research 63 (1-2) 143-162

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/030192689390009Q

Dauteuil O, Rouby O, Braun J, Guillocheau F, Deschamps F 2013. Post-breakup evolution of the Namibian margin: Constraints from numerical modeling. Tectonophysics 604 122-138

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195113002205

Brüchert V, Currie B, Peard KR 2009. Hydrogen sulphide and methane emissions on the central Namibian shelf. Progress in Oceanography 83 (1) 169-179

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007966110900072X

Brüchert V, Currie B, Peard KR, Lass U, Endler R, Dübecke A, Julies E, Leipe T, Zitzmann S 2006. Biogeochemical and physical control on shelf anoxia and water column hydrogen sulphide in the Benguela coastal upwelling system off Namibia. Past and Present Water Column Anoxia 64 161-193

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/1-4020-4297-3_07

Bremner JM 1981. Shelf morphology and surficial sediment off Central and Northern South West Africa (Namibia). Geo-Marine Letters 1 (2) 91-96

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02463324

Bagguley J, Prosser S 1999. The interpretation of passive margin depositional processes using seismic stratigraphy: examples from offshore Namibia. Geological Society 153 321-344

Website link:http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/153/1/321.abstract

Dingle RV 1973. The geology of the continental shelf between Luderitz and Cape Town (Southwest Africa), with special reference to Tertiary strata. Journal of the Geological Society 129 (4) 337-362

Website link:http://jgs.geoscienceworld.org/content/129/4/337.abstract

Sandpiper Marine Phosphate Project, Atlantic Ocean, Namibia.

Website link:http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/sandpiper-marine-phosphate-project/

Peischl S Geologische Übersicht.

Website link:http://www.geo.tu-freiberg.de/studenten/namibia/namex_hp/geologie.htm

Monteiro PMS, Nelson G, Van der Plas A, Mabille E, Bailey GW, Klingelhoeffer E 2005. Internal tide - shelf topography interactions as a forcing factor governing the large-scale distribution and burial fluxes of particulate organic matter (POM) in the Benguela upwelling system. Continental Shelf Research 25 (15) 1864 - 1876

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Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/542

Monteiro PMS, van der Plas AK 2006. Low Oxygen Water (LOW) variability in the Benguela system: Key processes and forcing scales relevant to forecasting. Benguela: predicting a large marine ecosystem 14 19

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1085

Summerhayes CP, Hofmeyr PK, Rioux RH 1974. Seabirds off the southwestern coast of Africa. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 45 (2) 83 - 109

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1974.9639496#.VRq0TWf9kpE

Dingle RV, Bremner JM, Giraudeau J, Buhmann D 1996. Modern and palaeooceanographic environments under Benguela upwelling cells of southern Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 123 (1-4) 85-105

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0031-0182(96)00116-2

Jegen M, Avdeeva A, Berndt C, Franz G, Heincke B, Hölz S, Neska A, Marti A, Planert L, Chen J, Kopp H, Baba K, Ritter O, Weckmann U, Meqbel N, Behrmann J 2016. 3-D magnetotelluric image of offshore magmatism at the Walvis Ridge and rift basin. Tectonophysics 683 98-108

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195116302220

Eisenbarth S, Zettler ML 2016. Diversity of the benthic macrofauna off northern Namibia from the shelf to the deep sea. Journal of Marine Systems 155 1-10

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924796315001840

Rogers J, Rau AJ 2006. Surficial sediments of the wave-dominated Orange River Delta and the adjacent continental margin off south-western Africa. African Journal of Marine Science 28 (3-4) 511-524

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/18142320609504202#.VIawmGctBHg

Amoroso R.O., Pitcher CR, Rijnsdorp AD, McConnaughey RA, Parma AM, Suuronen P, Eigaard OR, Bastardie F, Hintzen NT, Althaus F, Baird SJ, Black J, Buhl-Mortensen L, Campbell AB, Catarino R, Collie J, Cowan JH, Durholtz D, Engstrom N, Fairweather TP, Fock HO, Ford R, Gálvez PA, Gerritsen H, Góngora ME, González JA, Hiddink JG, Hughes KM, Intelmann SS, Jenkins C, Jonsson P, Kainge P, Kangas M, Kathena JN, Kavadas S, Leslie RW, Lewis SG, Lundy M, Makin D, Martin J, Mazor T, Gonzalez-Mirelis G, Newman SJ, Papadopoulou N, Posen PE, Rochester W, Russo T, Sala A, Semmens JM, Silva C, Tsolos A, Vanelslander B, Wakefield CB, Wood BA, Hilborn R, Kaiser MJ, Jennings S 2018. Bottom trawl fishing footprints on the world's continental shelves. PNAS (115) E10275-E10282

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Kirkpatrick LH, Green AN, Pether J 2019. The seismic stratigraphy of the inner shelf of southern Namibia: The development of an unusual nearshore shelf stratigraphy. Marine Geology (408) 18-35

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2018.11.016

2014. Unlocking the Economic Potential of South Africa's Oceans: Marine Protection Services and Governance, Executive Summary, 15 August, 2014.

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Compton JS, Herbert CT, Hoffman MT, Schneider RR, Stuut J-B 2010. A tenfold increase in the Orange River mean Holocene mud flux: implications for soil erosion in South Africa. The Holocene (20) 115–122

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Kirkpatrick LH, Jacob J, Green AN 2019. Beaches and bedrock: How geological framework controls coastal morphology and the relative grade of a Southern Namibian diamond placer deposit. Ore Geology Reviews (107) 853-862

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.03.029

Robertson A, Jarvis A, Mendelsohn J, Swart R 2012. Namibia's Coast: Figure 33 Fish distribution. Namibia's Coast: Ocean Riches and Desert Treasures

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Robertson A, Jarvis A, Mendelsohn J, Swart R 2012. Namibia's Coast: Figure 26 Texture and Composition. Namibia's Coast: Ocean Riches and Desert Treasures

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Robertson A, Jarvis A, Mendelsohn J, Swart R 2012. Namibia's Coast: Figure 24 Bathymetry. Namibia's Coast: Ocean Riches and Desert Treasures

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Robertson A, Jarvis A, Mendelsohn J, Swart R 2012. Namibia's Coast: Figure 02 EEZ. Namibia's Coast: Ocean Riches and Desert Treasures

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Lass HU, Mohrholz V 2005. On the fluctuations and vertical structure of the shelf circulation off Walvis Bay, Namibia. Continental Shelf Research 25 1473 - 1497

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On the fluctuation shelf ciculation off Walvisbay, Namibia.pdf	1.41 MB

Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia 1990. Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone of Namibia, Act No. 3 of 1990, 30 June 1990.

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Government of the Republic of Namibia 2009. Continental shelf submission of Namibia.

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Continental Shelf Submission of Namibia.pdf	5.7 MB

DebMarine Namibia 2017. Overview of environmental management at DebMarine Namibia.

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Overview of environmental management at DebMarine Namibia.pptx	5.75 MB