passive margin
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passive margins
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When oceanic crust connected by a passive margin to continental crust completely subducts beneath a continent, an ocean basin closes, and continental collision begins.
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Tectonics in western North America during the early part of the Paleozoic was mostly mild, as a long-lived passive margin developed.
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A tectonic plate may be made of both oceanic and continental lithosphere connected by a passive margin.
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Subduction zones are assumed to form where accumulation of sediment at a passive margin leads to separation of oceanic and continental lithosphere.
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Figure 10.26 Development of a subduction zone at a passive margin.
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