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Wikipedia Overview
A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate margin. A passive margin forms by sedimentation above an ancient rift, now marked by transitional lithosphere. Continental rifting forms new ocean basins. Eventually the continental rift forms a mid-ocean ridge and the locus of extension moves away from the continent-ocean boundary. The transition between the continental and oceanic lithosphere that was originally formed by rifting is known as a passive margin.
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Slab tearing and its surface signals controlled by passive margin strength - Nature
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Moroccan Atlantic Margin: Where geological diversity meets outstanding exploration potential - GeoExpro
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Crustal constraints on the surface expression of mantle upwelling in a back-arc passive margin setting - Nature
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Rifting and the Passive Margin - Idaho State University
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Coupling Crustal-Scale Rift Architecture With Passive Margin Salt Tectonics: A Geodynamic Modeling Approach - AGU Publications
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Provenance of Passive-Margin Sand (Southern Africa) - The University of Chicago Press: Journals
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Passive Margins & Biscayne National Park - ArcGIS StoryMaps
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Variations in Subsidence Patterns in the Gulf of Mexico Passive Margin From Airborne-LiDAR Data and Time Series InSAR: Baton Rouge Case Study - AGU Publications
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India–Eurasia convergence speed-up by passive-margin sediment subduction - Nature
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The Geodynamic Implications of Passive Margin Subduction in Northwest Turkey - AGU Publications
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Pace of passive margin tectonism revealed by U-Pb dating of fracture-filling calcite - Nature
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Sensitivity of modelled passive margin stratigraphy to variations in sea level, sediment supply and subsidence - Wiley Online Library
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Relict subduction initiation along a passive margin in the northwest Indian Ocean - Nature
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Crustal Structure of the UAE-Oman Mountain Range and Arabian Rifted Passive Margin: New Constraints From Active and Passive Seismic Methods - AGU Publications
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Origin of ocean island basalts in the West African passive margin without mantle plume involvement - Nature
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Transcurrent reactivation of Australia's western passive margin: An example of intraplate deformation from the central Indo-Australian plate - AGU Publications
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Modification of Crust and Mantle Lithosphere Beneath the Southern Part of the Eastern North American Passive Margin - AGU Publications
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Continent-Ocean Transition or Boundary? Crowd-Sourced Seismic Interpretations of the East-India Passive Margin - AGU Publications
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The Neotethyan Sanandaj-Sirjan zone of Iran as an archetype for passive margin-arc transitions - AGU Publications
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Superimposed Rifting at the Junction of the Central and Equatorial Atlantic: Formation of the Passive Margin of the Guiana Shield - Loparev - 2021 - Tectonics - AGU Publications
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A Reappraisal of the Poya Terrane (New Caledonia): Accreted Late Cretaceous-Paleocene Marginal Basin Upper Crust, Passive Margin Sediments, and Early Eocene E-MORB Sill Complex - AGU Publications
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The Lamu Basin deepwater fold-and-thrust belt: An example of a margin-scale, gravity-driven thrust belt along the continental passive margin of East Africa - AGU Publications
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Benthic species patterns in and around the Cape Canyon: A large submarine canyon off the western passive margin of South Africa - Frontiers
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Predicting Sediment Thickness on Vanished Ocean Crust Since 200 Ma - AGU Publications
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New 'embryonic' subduction zone found - Phys.org
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The Canadian Beaufort Sea - GeoExpro
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