Passive Continental Margin

2-D cross-sectional diagram of a continental passive margin, showing continent, continental shelf and slope, and oceanic crust overlying lithospheric and asthenospheric mantle

Tags

plate tectonics, Earth's interior

Creator

Kent Ratajeski, University of Kentucky, kent.ratajeski@uky.edu

Source

modified from Fig. 4.2 (a) in Marshak, 2019, Earth: Portrait of a Planet, 6th edition

Language

Grade 2 (contracted) Braille

Font

Swell Braille, 24 pt, download from https://www.tsbvi.edu/download-braille-and-asl-specialty-fonts

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