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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

models: Passive continental margin model Crystalline axis model Accreted terrane model Carboniferous-extension model This model is a single margin model. Here...

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...

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

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

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

the continental plates moved closer together, fragments of oceanic crust, islands, and other continental masses collided with the eastern margin of ancestral...

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