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Active Continental Margins
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Description: Active continental margins
Continental slope descends abruptly into a deep-ocean trench
Located primarily around the Pacific Ocean
Accumulations of deformed sediment and scraps of ocean crust form accretionary wedges
Some subduction zones have little or no accumulation of sediments

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