What is the layout of an ocean basin -shelf -slope -rise -plane -ridge -repeat What shapes the...
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What is the layout of an ocean basin -shelf -slope -rise -plane -ridge -repeat
What shapes the continental margin/continental shelf?
Synthesis on next page and http://oxbow.sr.unh.edu/class.html
Synthesis of last classesNote all the things you cansee. Start from land
ShelfSlopeCanyonsFansabyssal planeshot spot tracesridgetransform faults2 subduction zones2 trenches
even the remnant of a land/land collision
Where would back-arc volcanoes be?
Where is the oldest rock? Oldest sea-floor?
You should be ableto explain why all these exist!
Why is the deepest part of the ocean just off the slope?
http://oxbow.sr.unh.edu/class.html
Hot spot...
Synthesis of last classesNote all the things you cansee. Start from land
ShelfSlopeCanyonsFansabyssal planeshot spot tracesridgetransform faults2 subduction zones2 trenches
even the remnant of a land/land collision
Where would back-arc volcanoes be?
Where is the oldest rock? Oldest sea-floor?
You should be ableto explain why all these exist!
Why is the deepest part of the ocean just off the slope?
http://oxbow.sr.unh.edu/class.html