Continental-margin
noun, Physical Geography.
1.
the offshore zone, consisting of the continental shelf, slope, and rise, that separates the dry-land portion of a continent from the deep ocean floor.
noun
the offshore zone, consisting of the continental rise, shelf, and slope that separates the land of a continent from the deep ocean floor; the ocean floor from the continental slope to the abyssal plain
Usage Note
geology
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