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Passive margin

earth science Maturity 11-13

The land meets the sea.

Passive Contiental Margin.jpg
Passive Contiental Margin.jpg
This place is very calm. It is not a place where plates crash. It is where land turns into ocean. Big rivers flow into the water here.
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It is a special part of our world. Do you like the beach?

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File:Rifting to Spreading Transition.jpg
Rifting to Spreading Transition.jpg
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Passive Contiental Margin.jpg
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globald.png
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bathmetry.png
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File:Volcanic passive margin.svg
Volcanic passive margin.svg
File:Formation of passive margins.png
Formation of passive margins.png
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