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What does the continental margin consist of?
The continental margin is the zone of ocean floor that separates oceanic crust and continental crust. It accounts for 28% of all oceanic area.
A passive continental margin has a while an active margin does not.?
An active continental margin may have a trench.
What does the passive continental margin have that the active margin does not?
Subduction. A subduction trench.
What is the region beyond the continental margin?
The abyssal plain is beyond the continental margin.
Which of the following is NOT a continental margin continental shelf continental slope?
continental trench
What is a continental margin?
The continental margin is the zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust.
What is continental margin?
The continental margin is the zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust.
Is fracture zone part of continental margin?
no it is not. continental shelf, rise, and submarine canyon.
What does the continental margin consist of?
The continental margin is the zone of ocean floor that separates oceanic crust and continental crust. It accounts for 28% of all oceanic area.
What is the part of the ocean that begin at the end of the continental margin?
TheNeritic Zone
A passive continental margin has a while an active margin does not.?
An active continental margin may have a trench.
Differences between exclusive economic zone and continental shelf zone?
Same area: Lower part is continental shelf whereas the upper part is exclusive economic zone. Seabed or Subsoil is covered in continental shelf whereas above that is exclusive economic zone.
What is the continental margin margin?
the margin of the continental
What does the passive continental margin have that the active margin does not?
Subduction. A subduction trench.
Is the continental margin of fort Myers an active continental margin?
Yes
What is the region beyond the continental margin?
The abyssal plain is beyond the continental margin.
What boundary is it called when an oceanic plate descends beneath a continental plate?
It's called destructive plate margin/boundary, or convergent plate margin though this term applies to all plate margins where two plates are moving towards each other (such as continental + continental or oceanic + oceanic).
