Pacific-type continental margin

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Pacific-type continental margin [pə′sif·ik ‚tīp ‚känt·ən′ent·əl ′mär·jən]

(geology)

A continental margin typified by that of the western Pacific where oceanic lithosphere descends beneath an adjacent continent and produces an intervening island arc system.

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