OCEAN 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chemosynthesis, Superheated Water, Mariana Trench
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Continental margins: the submerged outer edge of a continent (granite, where the continental plate meets the oceanic plate. Ocean basins: the deep sea oor beyond the continental margin (basalt) Continental shelf - the shallow, submerged edge of the continent. Continental slopes - the transition between the continental shelf and the deep-ocean oor. Shelf break - the abrupt transition from continental shelf to the continental slope. Continental rises - accumulated sediment found at the base of the continental slope. Active margin - things are converging and subducting and things are happening! !1: known as paci c-type margins, are located near the edges of converging plates. Active margins are the site of volcanic and earthquake activity, like the ring of. Passive margin - two plates meet but nothing is really happening and there is no. Atlantic-type margins, face the edges of diverging tectonic plates, very little volcanic or earthquake activity is associated with passive margins.
