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The shelf edge is the boundary between the continental shelf and the?
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What is a coastal boundary?
Extended from the low-tide mark to the outer edge of the continental shelf, the relatively shallow border that surrounds the continents.
What marks the seaward edge of the continental shelf?
The seaward edge or its sharp drop-off from the shoreline is called continental shelf break. This region is also the area wherein continental slope begins.
What is the underwater edge of a continent called?
The tip of the continental shelf (which has a gentle slope) where if you go any farther, the continental slope forms, which has a very steep slope.
What is a sandy gently sloping underwater plain near a continent?
The continental margin is the submerged outer edge of a continent. It is generally divided into two sections: the continental shelf and the continental slope.
How can crust disappear at the edge of a boundary?
New crust is being added to the other edge of the boundary
What begins at the edge of the continental shelf?
the continental shelf-edge or shelf-break
The BEST definition of the outer edge of the continental shelf is that point where?
The part on where the continental shelf meets the continental slope creating an edge.
What is a coastal boundary?
Extended from the low-tide mark to the outer edge of the continental shelf, the relatively shallow border that surrounds the continents.
What the steep incline at the edge of the continental shelf called?
The edge is called the shelf break. The actual declining shelf is called the called the continental slope.
What is the underwater edge of a continent?
continental shelf
What is the continental edge?
The continental shelf edge is an area that is located at the edge of an underwater landmass. This landmass extends out from a continent and has a relatively shallow area of water which is often referred to as the shelf sea.
How is the slope different from the continental shelf?
Continental shelf is an undersea extension of a continent. Continental slope connects the continental shelf to the abyssal plain.
What marks the seaward edge of the continental shelf?
The seaward edge or its sharp drop-off from the shoreline is called continental shelf break. This region is also the area wherein continental slope begins.
What are land from continent's edge to ocean floor?
The continental rise and the continental shelf.
What does the continental slope look like?
Ocean floor from the edge of the continental shelf to the continental rise
What is the gently sloping shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of the continent?
continental shelf
Continental shelf is part of what?
the continental shelf begins at the shoreline and slopes gently toward the open ocean the continental rise is the base of the continental slope, which is made up of large pites of sediment the continental slope is the edge of the continental shelf
