continental margin

At the surface, new volcanoes were built along the continental margin.

Other topographic features are also found along the continental margin.

The knowledge of transport and biological utilization at the continental margins need further attention.

That would explain why they landed in the deeper waters, rather than along the continental margin.

The sediments are of marine origin and probably were left behind on the continental margin.

It was later accreted to the continental margin of Laurasia.

An elongated basin was formed parallel to the continental margin.

They finally disappear along the continental margin of Asturias.

The offshore island-arc system faced southeast toward the continental margin.

The continental shelf and the slope are part of the continental margin.

Its range extends farther north and south along continental margins than in oceanic waters.

Submarine canyons are deep, steep-sided valleys that form on continental margins.

Due to its increased density, flows down the Antarctic continental margin and continues north along the bottom.

This is the continental margin, constituting about 28% of the total oceanic area.

The magma was formed under tension conditions on the continental margin from deep down in the mantle.

While estimates agreed well in central Atlantic regions, fairly large discrepancies were found at the continental margins.

The resulting orogen would be a modified continental margin type.

It is deeply incised into the narrow, tectonically active, continental margin.

Cold seeps occur along active and passive continental margins.

As plants took hold on the continental margins, oxygen levels increased and carbon dioxide dropped, although much less dramatically.

Continental margins constitute about 28% of the oceanic area.

Evidence for an Andean type continental margin comes from the lithology and geochemical data.

The rocks are considered to be deposited in a part of the Indian passive continental margin .

Along the continental margin, volcanoes grew, coincident with the initiation of subduction.

Compression resulting from this collision crushed, fractured and folded rocks along the continental margin.