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On an active continental margin, you would be likely to find an active ocean trench. This structure would generally not occur at a passive continental margin.
really. Since they are generated by activity, one would assume so. Massive earthquakes or slides generate them. No activity-no tsunami.
mainly of basaltic lava flows and minor, coralline limestone
When an overriding plate is continental, a marginal trench forms where the topographic depression seems to follow the outline of the continental margin. It is here where explosive volcanoes can be found.
yes it would be active but rarely errupt but it would still be active
There are two structures that would be found at a passive continental margin. These structures are continental shelves and continental slopes.
On an active continental margin, you would be likely to find an active ocean trench. This structure would generally not occur at a passive continental margin.
On an active continental margin, you would be likely to find an active ocean trench. This structure would generally not occur at a passive continental margin.
You will find active faults and, if the margin is convergent, volcanoes.
really. Since they are generated by activity, one would assume so. Massive earthquakes or slides generate them. No activity-no tsunami.
When an overriding plate is continental, a marginal trench forms where the topographic depression seems to follow the outline of the continental margin. It is here where explosive volcanoes can be found.
When an overriding plate is continental, a marginal trench forms where the topographic depression seems to follow the outline of the continental margin. It is here where explosive volcanoes can be found.
mainly of basaltic lava flows and minor, coralline limestone
Erosion happens constantly everywhere, from mountains to seashores. Although I would imagine that the greatest amount of erosion would occur in water, so perhaps anywhere from a near shore enviroment down to the continental slope/abyssal plain.
The margin of safety in motor vehicle design would include designing the car to under steer because that gives better control in a turn or designing the car with a lower center of gravity to be more stable on turns. The margin of safety in building structures like bridges would be making sure it could withstand the weight of the vehicles that would cross over it and making sure it could withstand wind gusts at high speeds and earthquakes. The importance is obvious, to save lives and spare personal injury.
You would need to find a continental rift. The best example of an active continental rift is the East African Rift.
In an ideal world this would be a margin that involves some element of compression, so you're looking at a compressional (orogenic) or subducting margin. Anywhere where the crust is thickened generally involves reverse, also known as thrust, faulting.