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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
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.
There are two structures that would be found at a passive continental margin. These structures are continental shelves and continental slopes.
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.
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.
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.