A continental margin is the outer edge of continental crust abutting oceanic crust under coastal waters. It is one of the three major zones of the ocean...

continental margin, between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain, comprises a steep continental slope, surrounded by the flatter continental rise...

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

margin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Margin may refer to: Margin (typography), the white space that surrounds the content of a page Continental...

intervening between the continental margin and the subduction zone is progressively swallowed until the continental margin arrives at the subduction...

nonetheless: subduction initiation, thrusting of the ophiolite over a continental margin or an overriding plate at a subduction zone, and contact with air...

to as an archipelago. There are two main types of islands in the sea: continental islands and oceanic islands. There are also artificial islands (man-made...

continental slope and the abyssal plain. It is a major part of the continental margin, covering around 10% of the ocean floor. This geologic structure results...

when a group of active volcanic islands approached a pre-existing continental margin and coastline of North America. These volcanic islands, known as the...

Orogeny the northern margin became an active margin and Baltica expanded northward with the accretion of a series of continental blocks: the Timan-Pechora...

of the continental margin but at least 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) from the baselines of the territorial sea if the continental margin does not...

It is also referred to as a maritime continental margin and, in colloquial usage, may include the continental shelf. The term does not include either...

subduction continues, island arcs, continental fragments, and oceanic material may gradually accrete onto the continental margin. This is one of the main mechanisms...

Ordovician period. Sacabambaspis lived in shallow waters on the continental margins of Gondwana. It is the best known arandaspid with many specimens...

A continental arc is a type of volcanic arc occurring as an "arc-shape" topographic high region along a continental margin. The continental arc is formed...

formed on oceanic crust are likely to be destroyed by subduction. Continental margins formed when new ocean basins like the Atlantic are created as continents...

south of or near the Equator together with the remaining western continental margin of India, when India separated first from Madagascar in the Mid-Cretaceous...

more dendritic and more closely spaced on active than on passive continental margins. The walls are generally very steep and can be near vertical. The...

modern-day Brazil lined up with eastern North America, forming a continental margin that extended into the southern edge of Scandinavia. Columbia was...

Eurasian oceanic crust and continental crust of the Australian plate. This is a unique convergent margin where a thick continental margin is forced under thinner...

wide. Contrary to what was previously thought, elevated passive continental margins (EPCM) such as the Brazilian Highlands, the Scandinavian Mountains...

(Rishabhdev) lineament to the west, simultaneous development of a passive continental margin with the undersea shelf rise sediments of the Aravalli-Jharol belts...

Puget Sound, following the edge of a relict continental margin just as the Tofino Fault follows the present margin. More recent interpretations of marine seismic...

along its margins. All this evidence, both from the ocean floor and from the continental margins, made it clear around 1965 that continental drift was...

than was previously thought. The Atlantic continental margin of the Northeastern United States is a passive margin. The seismicity of the northeast is generally...

the northern Cantabrian continental margin about 12,000 years ago. The Le Danois Bank represents part of the continental margin that have been uplifted...

tectonic erosion margin. There is no accretionary wedge forming in the trench, and what sediment is found there is from continental sources, based on...

arc or continental margin volcanism. This volcanism includes more silicic lavas the further from the edge of the island arc or continental margin, indicating...

in are fjords, active river deltas on the continental margin, submarine canyon fan systems, open continental slopes, and oceanic volcanic islands and ridges...

the short life of oceanic crust. Because continental crust is less dense than oceanic crust, when active margins of the two meet in subduction zones, the...