As countries race to file claims to areas of the sea floor before a United Nations deadline, geologists and geophysicists are getting caught up in the frenzy. Daniel Cressey reports.
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Daniel Cressey is a reporter in Nature's London offices.
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Cressey, D. Geology: The next land rush. Nature 451, 12–15 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/451012a
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