Continental Margins - geography.
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Continental Margins - geography. Grand Banks, North America Just off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador is an extensive area of very shallow ocean water. Depths here average about 100 meters (300 feet), compared with 4,000 to 6,000 meters (13,000 to 20,000 feet) in the surrounding ocean. The Grand Banks lie on what is called the continental shelf of North America. Continental crust is much thicker than oceanic crust, so the continents rise above the deep layer of wa...
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