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What is one structure you would find at an active continental margin that you would not find 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.
Are the Appalachian mountains on an active plate edge?
No. There is no such thing as a passive plate edge. They are near a passive continental margin.
The ocean floor is divided into two major regions?
The two major regions are the continental margin and the deep-ocean basin.
Which best explains the absence of volcanoes and earthquakes at a passive continental margin?
Earthquakes and volcanoes are rare due to the distance from any active boundaries.
What is margin of neem leaf?
What is margin of neem leaf
Is the west coast of Africa a passive or active continental margin?
Passive continental margin.
What does the passive continental margin have that the active margin does not?
Subduction. A subduction trench.
What is a pericratonic basin?
Peri-Cratonic margin basin is the basin having extent from land into the sea with the continental margin within the basin.
What is usually found at an active margin but NOT at a passive margin?
Active and passive margins describe the various characteristics of continental margins that are a result of plate tectonics. An active margin usually has numerous volcanoes and mountains, while a passive margin typically do not have these formations.
What does a active continental margin have that a passive margin does not?
Subduction. A subduction trench.
Which South American continental margin is passive and not a plate boundary?
The eastern coast of South America is a passive margin, rather than a plate boundary.
What is one structure you would find at an active continental margin that you would not find 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.
What is one structure you would find at an active continental margin that you would not find at a passive coninental 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.
Which only has sediment buildup?
passive continental margin
What are two structures you would find at a passive continental margin?
There are two structures that would be found at a passive continental margin. These structures are continental shelves and continental slopes.
Where are broad sediment covered continental shelves found in active pr passive margins?
passive margin
A passive continental margin has a while an active margin does not.?
An active continental margin may have a trench.
