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?

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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