SEDIS - Thesaurus
contine  |
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| continental | |
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| SN | A valid term through 1977. See continental crust; continental drift; continental margin. |
| continental borderland | |
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| UF | borderland, continental |
| RT | continental margin |
| continental shelf | |
| continental slope | |
| SN | The area of the continental margin between the shoreline and the continental slope which is topographically more complex than the continental shelf. |
| continental crust | |
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| BT | crust |
| .continental crust | |
| UF | continental type |
| RT | transition zones |
| plate tectonics | |
| underplating | |
| microcontinents | |
| CALCRUST | |
| COCORP | |
| Illinois Deep Hole Project | |
| Lg-waves | |
| oceanization | |
| Sn-waves | |
| SN | Also search crust AND continental type; crust AND continental; continental AND genesis. Added to Thesaurus in 1981. |
| continental displacement |
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| continental drift |
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| continental dunes | |
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| BT | dunes |
| .continental dunes | |
| BT | eolian features |
| .continental dunes | |
| RT | geomorphology |
| shore features | |
| foredunes | |
| SN | This term has multiple hierarchies. Added to Thesaurus in 1981. |
| continental environment | |
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| USE | terrestrial environment |
| continental margin | |
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| UF | margin, continental |
| RT | continental rise |
| ocean floors | |
| active margins | |
| AMCOR | |
| continental shelf | |
| continental slope | |
| island arcs | |
| aseismic margins | |
| Continental Offshore Stratigraphic Test | |
| back-arc basins | |
| continental borderland | |
| continental margin sedimentation | |
| continents | |
| cratons | |
| passive | |
| SN | Use term to denote both shelf and slope. Also search continental AND margin. |
| continental margin sedimentation | |
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| BT | sedimentation |
| .continental margin sedimentation | |
| RT | continental margin |
| continental shelf | |
| continental slope | |
| SN | Added to Thesaurus in 1989. |
| continental migration |
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| Continental Offshore Stratigraphic Test | |
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| RT | Alaska |
| Atlantic Ocean | |
| continental margin | |
| continental shelf | |
| continental slope | |
| cores | |
| cost | |
| marine drilling | |
| oceanography | |
| offshore | |
| stratigraphy | |
| SN | Also search COST in conjunction with appropriate state or region. Added to Thesaurus in 1989. |
| continental platform | |
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| USE | continental shelf |
| continental rise | |
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| UF | rise, continental |
| RT | abyssal plains |
| ocean floors | |
| continental margin | |
| marine geology | |
| continental slope | |
| HEBBLE | |
| nepheloid layer | |
| Continental Scientific Drilling Program | |
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| UF | CSDP |
| RT | drilling |
| programs | |
| SN | Added to Thesaurus in 1989. |
| continental seas | |
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| USE | epicontinental seas |
| continental shelf | |
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| NT | inner shelf |
| outer shelf | |
| UF | continental platform |
| continental terrace | |
| shelf, continental | |
| RT | continental margin |
| ecology | |
| marine geology | |
| AMCOR | |
| continental slope | |
| ocean circulation | |
| Continental Offshore Stratigraphic Test | |
| currents | |
| continental borderland | |
| continental margin sedimentation | |
| continents | |
| epicontinental seas | |
| insular shelf | |
| ocean currents | |
| ocean | |
| SN | For studies of geological processes taking place on the shelf. Restricted to the modern shelf area. Also search continental AND shelf. Indexed with both land and sea geographic terms. |
| continental slope | |
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| NT | inner slope |
| outer slope | |
| UF | slope, continental |
| RT | continental rise |
| continental margin | |
| ecology | |
| marine geology | |
| AMCOR | |
| continental shelf | |
| ocean circulation | |
| Continental Offshore Stratigraphic Test | |
| marginal basins | |
| HEBBLE | |
| continental borderland | |
| continental margin sedimentation | |
| continents | |
| hemipelagic environment | |
| SN | For modern slope area. Use slope environment for older sedimentation. Also search continental AND slope. Indexed with with geographic terms for both land and sea. |
| continental terrace | |
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| USE | continental shelf |
| continental type | |
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| USE | continental crust |
| continents | |
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| RT | continental drift |
| continental margin | |
| continental shelf | |
| continental slope | |
| cratons | |
| Earth | |
| epeirogeny | |
| epicontinental seas | |
| island arcs | |
| islands | |
| isostasy | |
| marginal seas | |
| supercontinents | |
| tectonic platforms | |
| SN | Used for discussions of continents as units (e.g. geometry of a continent). |
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