continental margin

collocation in English

meanings of continentaland margin

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continental
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌkɒn.tɪˈnen.təl/ us /ˌkɑːn.t̬ənˈen.t̬əl/
someone who comes from Europe but not the ...
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margin
noun
uk /ˈmɑː.dʒɪn/ us /ˈmɑːr.dʒɪn/
the amount by which one thing is different ...
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Examples of continental margin

continental margin
What was the role of arc-systems during continentalmargin evolution?
Stratigraphic models depict continentalmargin sedimentation in ever greater numbers, but studies of their real sedimentary sequences have, with exceptions, gently slipped into the background.
The first two sequences are thought to represent the evolution of the basin on a passive continentalmargin.
The progressive contraction of oceanic crust caused the uplift of previously rifted continental margin and platforms and the formation of foredeep flysch basins.
This finding implies magmas intruding into a continentalmargin arc.
This implies accretion of the limestone to the continentalmargin soon after its formation.
The progressive contraction of oceanic crust caused the uplift of previously rifted continental margin and platforms, and formation of foredeep flysch basins.
Collision of a ridge crest with the continentalmargin has been active for the past 14 to 15 million years.
This requires the limestone to have migrated from its intra-oceanic setting to accretion at a continentalmargin within 15 m. y. of deposition.
Many weaned crabeater seal pups were seen in both the pack ice and along the continentalmargin.
Flat slab subduction related to the subduction of a spreading ridge will take place during a restricted period of time under a specific segment of the continentalmargin.
Slab break-off and intrusion of hot asthenosphere caused partial melting of rift-related continentalmargin basalts at the detachment point to generate adakitic magmas.
This in turn suggests a rethickening of the lithosphere at the continentalmargin, because the degree of melting appears to decrease and not increase after break-up.
Dark grey areas are continentalmargin; light grey areas are continental shelf.
The precise method of delineating the outer edge of the continentalmargin is one of the subjects under discussion at the conference.
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