An anteclise is a large uplifted structure in a continental platform setting, with low-angle, divergent dips, formed by slow and steady central uplift.
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The musky octopus occurs on the sandy bottom of the continental platform, at depths up to 400 meters. Usually it lives burrowed into the sediments.
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The 2012 Continental GTZ is the second Continental GTZ by Zagato and was built on the 2nd generation Continental platform with body panels covering the top of rear wheels. The vehicle was unveiled at the 2012 Concorso d'Eleganza.
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A syneclise is a large, relatively shallow depression formed in a continental platform setting, due to slow and steady subsidence. Covering a large area, the slow subsidence generally leads to thick, convergent sedimentary layers with low-angle dips.
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The La Guaira Bank is a Pleistocene structure that is wholly submerged. It is 19 km long and 6 km wide. Its depths range between 60 and 70 m, rising from the 260 m deep surrounding seabed of the continental platform. La Guaira Bank is located close to the Carayaca Bank (), another structure that rises between 50 and 100 m from the surface.
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The Moldavian Plateau was formed at the end of the Neogene through sediments, over an old continental platform, the East European Platform. Afterwards, the settled sediments, which were brought in by rivers from the Carpathian Mountains, were modeled by the elements giving the plateau its current aspect. The materials that formed the sediments are gravel and sand. Hardened, they formed gritstones.
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A back-arc above a subduction zone The back-arc region is the area behind a volcanic arc. In island volcanic arcs it consists of back-arc basins of oceanic crust with abyssal depths, which may be separated by remnant arcs, similar to island arcs. In continental arcs the back-arc region is part of continental platform, either dry land (subaerial) or forming shallow marine basins.
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The sediments of the Casma Group reflect deposition in two distinct environments of the West Peruvian Basin. Some sediments were deposited near the Casma Volcanic Arc in an intra-cratonic sedimentary basin that was occasionally connected to the ocean. Other sediments were deposited in what was once a continental platform bounded by reefs and with anoxic pockets.Compare et al, 1983 Together with the Morro Solar and Imperial Groups, the Casma Group contains clastic volcanosedimentary material derivative of the Mesozoic Casma Volcanic Arc.
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In 1971, he and R.A. Kamaletdinov discovered that the formation of foredeeps was associated with the isostatic dip edge of the continental platform under the weight of orogenic structures. With Yu.V. Kazantsev and T.T. Kazantseva, he analyzed the tectonics of the Urals in comparison with the Crimean Mountains, the Caucasus Mountains, the Pamir Mountains, the Himalayas, the Appalachians, the Rocky Mountains, and other orogenic zones. The results allowed him to forecast the prospects for oil and gas in undernappe zones. With D.V. Postnikov, Kamaletdinov studied the foundations of ancient and young platforms: Eastern European, Western European, Siberian, West Siberian, North American, and African.
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The formation of the Cordillera Oriental covered the continental platform with pelagic sediments with Precambrian and Paleozoic metamorphic rocks bases. The area of the Bogotá Savanna and the highland of Cundinamarca and Boyacá tableland. To the northeast the volcanic metamorphic formed massif in Santander and Norte de Santander formed the Andes in Venezuela and the mountain ranges of Perijá and Motilones, between the border of Colombia and Venezuela during the Pleistocene and added sedimentary rocks during the Mesozoic. The Cordillera Central formed from the Guyana shield during the Paleozoic era with intrusions from granite and metamorphism.
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The Maltese archipelago is situated on the mainly shallow water continental platform between Sicily and North Africa that lies beneath the Sicily Channel, separating the Ionian Basin from the western Mediterranean Basin. The islands lie around 200 km to the south of the subduction boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The platform is crossed by a rift zone formed of three grabens: the Pantelleria graben, that of Malta, and that of Linosa. The faults bounding these grabens are associated with most of the earthquakes that affect the archipelago, although some earthquakes with epicentres in Sicily may have damaging effects, such as the 1693 Sicily earthquake.
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The advent of irrigation in the São Francisco River Valley (between the states of Bahia and Pernambuco) in the latter half of the 20th century has also led to substantial growth in fruit production, primarily for export. At the seaside and the continental platform of the region, the main economic activity is the exploitation of oil, which is later processed in the state of Bahia, and natural gas in Maranhão. Major industries (clothing, food, small machinery) are concentrated in the main metropolitan areas of Nordeste. Official reclamation activities have spurred the construction of numerous dams and hydroelectric projects, especially on the São Francisco River.
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Furthermore, it is clear that for the development and maintenance of all this infrastructure, it was necessary to provide tools, that is, ships with larger and smaller units, airplanes for naval surveillance, and of course, the human component for their use. Similarly, the interest in guarding national maritime spaces: exclusive economic zone, continental platform, territorial sea; certainly originates the need to reinforce and consolidate in our geography a notion of conscience, which in concrete terms corresponds to a national maritime extension of 880,376 Km2 and which needs to be guarded since it means for the country a source of resources. On the other hand, the search for consolidating a Naval Power, whose objective is the protection of maritime interests, as well as a Maritime Power, which consists in the consolidation of the use of the maritime space; are two key elements that the Colombian State has to support in order to protect its maritime sovereignty. For the fulfillment of such objectives, the patrolling of the corresponding maritime spaces is key, a fact that also seeks to combat the illegal traffic that subsists within the structure of the Colombian State.
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