The continent-ocean boundary (COB) or continent-ocean transition (COT) or continent-ocean transition zone (COTZ) is the boundary between continental crust...

Determining the boundaries between the continents is generally a matter of geographical convention. Several slightly different conventions are in use...

the Pacific Ocean are grouped together with the continent of Australia to form the geographical region of Oceania. In geology, a continent is defined as...

basins that are below sea level. Most commonly the ocean is divided into basins following the continents distribution[clarification needed]: the North and...

new ocean basins. Eventually the continental rift forms a mid-ocean ridge and the locus of extension moves away from the continent-ocean boundary. The...

world's known seas World Ocean Atlas – Dataset of ocean properties Boundaries between the continents – Geographical convention " "Ocean", The Columbia Encyclopedia...

Convergent boundary Transform boundary Seafloor spreading – Geological process at mid-ocean ridges Continental drift – Movement of Earth's continents relative...

convection driven by abrupt changes in thermal layer thickness at the continent–ocean boundary. A proposed lower-mantle origin suggests a fragment of the subducting...

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north...

a UK charity that publishes scientific journals Continent-ocean boundary, the boundary between oceanic and continental crust on a passive margin Contingency...

continental boundary. More specifically, they contain a portion of their territory on one continent and a portion of their territory on another continent, while...

associated with certain active margins, and of great value. Continent-ocean boundary Convergent boundary Passive margin V., Thurman, Harold (2014-01-01). Essentials...

and others had noted earlier that the shapes of continents on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean (most notably, Africa and South America) seem to fit...

of lithosphere, and deformation. Convergent boundaries occur between oceanic-oceanic lithosphere, oceanic-continental lithosphere, and continental-continental...

reconstruction is almost as simple as fitting together the present continents bordering the Atlantic ocean like puzzle pieces. For the period before Pangaea, there...

the Iapetus Ocean and were later accreted to Baltica. The Baltica craton most likely underlies these terranes and the continent-ocean boundary passes several...

Caledonia is at the northern end of the ancient continent, while New Zealand rises at the plate boundary that bisects it. These land masses constitute two...

Russia, which is the largest country by land area in the continent. The southeast boundary with Asia is not universally defined, but the modern definition...

Ocean was defined as the ocean located between the ancient continents of Gondwana and Laurasia. After the opening of the Indian and Atlantic oceans during...

divide is a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other...

plate boundary. Most such faults are found in oceanic crust, where they accommodate the lateral offset between segments of divergent boundaries, forming...

Mackinder, who saw little validity in the Ural Mountains as a boundary between continents. Nineteenth-century Russian philosopher Nikolai Danilevsky defined...

Asia (/ˈeɪʒə/ AY-zhə, UK also /ˈeɪʃə/ AY-shə) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44...

The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Arabian Plate and the Gulf of Aqaba to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the...

Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans, Antarctica borders on all three. Borders of the oceans Boundaries between the continents of Earth Sea to Sea (disambiguation)...

Closure of ocean basins can occur at continent-to-continent boundaries. Transform boundaries (conservative boundaries or strike-slip boundaries) occur where...

viewed as a single continent, the Americas or America is the 2nd largest continent by area after Asia, and is the 3rd largest continent by population. The...

Earth's continents relative to each other Convergent boundary – Region of active deformation between colliding tectonic plates Divergent boundary – Linear...

Southern Ocean". The Colony of Victoria's Legislative Council Act 1881 delimited part of the division of Bairnsdale as "along the New South Wales boundary to...

seas. The first short section describes the borders or edges of continents and oceans/major seas. Disputed areas are not considered. (Notes: Dependencies...