Table of Contents

1 Introduction Part one Deep seabed politics and minerals 2 Law of the sea 3 UNCLOS III Convention and alternatives: the view of governments and industry 4 Minerals of the deep seabed 5 Technology and economics of deep seabed minerals Part two The continental margins 6 Placers and subseabed metallics 7 Construction aggregates and industrial sand 8 Industrial chemical materials and coal 9 Sea-water as an ore 10 The United States Exclusive Economic Zone: the management challenge 11 Offshore petroleum frontiers 12 The United Kingdom and Norway: offshore petroleum development policies 13 The geopolitics of offshore petroleum: confrontation, conflict, and co-operation 14 Epilogue

About the Author

Fillmore C. F. Earney

Reviews

`This is a fine book which bids fair to be the standard work on marine mineral resources for some years. It can be recommended with absolute confidence to all university libraries and individuals and firms interested in the marine mining industry, a subject which Earney has made his own amongst geographers.' - Progress in Human Geography