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Keywords: tectonic, continental, continent, rifting, margin

continental margin characterized by thick, flat-lying, shallow-water sediments with only limited tectonism related to divergent plate motion.

whfreeman.com

A continental margin that is not a plate boundary.

wwnorton.com

A continental margin where the ocean and continent are both part of the same tectonic plate.

volvooceanadventure.org

A lithospheric plate margin at which crust is neither created nor destroyed. Passive plate margins generally are marked by transform faults.

imnh.isu.edu

a coastline of a continent that is FAR from a plate boundary and therefore tectonically "passive"

pasadena.wr.usgs.gov

Continental margin formed during initial rifting apart of continents to form an ocean; frequently has thick sedimentary deposits.

seismo.ca

A tectonically inactive continental margin characterized by a lack of earthquakes and volcanic activity.

wrgis.wr.usgs.gov

In plate tectonics, a passive margin is the normally gently sloping continental shelf area located on the trailing edge of a drifting continent. The passive margin is free of the seismic and volcanic activity associated with the subduction, rifting or transform faulting that is the result of plate tectonic activity.

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