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...

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

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

convention defines "continental shelf" of coastal countries. A state's continental shelf extends to the outer edge of the continental margin but at least 200...

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...

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

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...

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

development of new convergent plate boundaries and continental-margin arc magmatism along its margins that helped drive up global temperatures. Laurentia...

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

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...

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

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...

passive margin in which there was no tectonic activity. Shallow marine deposits formed on the continental shelves, and oceanic crust formed on the margins of...

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

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...

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...

distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics...

tectonic formation located off the coast of the western California continental margin during the late to mid Cenozoic era, around 50 miles southeast of...

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

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...

completely disappeared because of the continuous subduction along the continental margins on its circumference. Panthalassa is also referred to as the Paleo-Pacific...

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...

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