A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate margin. A passive margin forms by sedimentation...

outermost zone of the continental margin. There are two types of continental margins: active and passive margins. Active margins are typically associated with...

by extensional tectonics, was associated with the development of a passive margin in northern Africa as the Neotethys Ocean was formed. The second, dominated...

form a passive margin. In this case the sedimentary rocks of the rift basin phase are overlain by those rocks deposited during the passive margin phase...

marine sedimentation onto the ancestral Tobosa Basin characterized the passive margin, shallow marine environment. The Tobosa Basin also contains basement...

straits. A passive margin developed on the edges of these new seas in the Death Valley region. Carbonate banks formed on this part of the two margins only to...

Atlantic Coast turned from an active margin into a passive one. Terranes were no longer accreted onto the margin; instead, sediment eroded off the Appalachians...

antiformal closures and these are known as metamorphic core complexes. Passive margins above a weak layer develop a specific set of extensional structures...

Volcanic passive margins (VPM) and non-volcanic passive margins are the two forms of transitional crust that lie beneath passive continental margins that...

Mesoproterozoic sediments. The margin became a passive margin facing the Ural Ocean in the Cambrian–Ordovician. The eastern margin stretches south through the...

Non-volcanic passive margins (NVPM) constitute one end member of the transitional crustal types that lie beneath passive continental margins; the other...

Overlying the arc-related sequence is a Late Cambrian to Early Devonian passive margin succession of clastic and carbonate sedimentary rocks. The Tākaka Terrane...

of the deep ocean basin proper, but the flooded margins of the continent. Passive continental margins such as most of the Atlantic coasts have wide and...

as a passive margin. Some passive margins have up to 10 km of sedimentary and volcanic rocks covering the continental crust. As a passive margin is pulled...

no widely accepted geophysical model that explains elevated passive continental margins such as the Scandinavian Mountains, eastern Greenland, the Brazilian...

where passive margins form. The edges of these continents may rift. At this point, seafloor spreading becomes the driving force. Passive margins are therefore...

subsidence on a large scale in a variety of environments, including passive margins, aulacogens, fore-arc basins, foreland basins, intercontinental basins...

convergent margin. Along the then western margin, Late Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian rifting was followed by the development of a passive margin. To the...

comprising the continental cratons. The margins of geologic continents are either active or passive. An active margin is characterised by mountain building...

strike-slip faults, in back-arc basins, and on the continental end of passive margin sequences where a detachment layer is present. Thrust tectonics is associated...

the passive margin of northeastern Laurussia (Baltica craton). The suture zone between the former island arc complex and the continental margin formed...

have occurred within a rift basin that evolved into a largely marine passive margin setting. The glacial diamictite deposits within the Huronian are on...

continental margin coincident with the initiation of subduction. Thrust faulting uplifted and warped older sedimentary rock laid down on the passive margin. As...

again likely submerged under a greater sea.: 116  The passive margin switched to active margin in the early-to-mid Mesozoic when the Farallon Plate under...

portion of Patagonia was separated from Gondwana, and the resulting passive margin that formed was a site of extensive sedimentation throughout the early-middle...

continental margin, coincident with the initiation of subduction. Thrust faulting uplifted and warped older sedimentary rock laid down on the passive margin. As...

Krishna Godavari Basin is a peri-cratonic passive margin basin in India. It is spread across more than 50,000 square kilometres in the Krishna River and...

South American Plate developed into a passive margin with the Proto-Caribbean Seaway. This stable passive margin allowed for thermal subsidence to occur...

Gondwana was mostly a passive margin, hosting extensive marine deposits in areas such as northwest Africa and Tibet. The eastern margin, though warmer than...

on strike-slip faults and as part of detached fault systems on some passive margins. In areas of thrust tectonics, two main processes are recognized: thin-skinned...