passive margin margen pasivo
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| Definition / notes: | The margin of a continent and ocean that does not coincide with the boundary of a lithospheric plate and along which collision is not occurring. Passive margins are characterized by rifted, rotated fault blocks of thick sediment, such as the present-day Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic margins of North America. |
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