The bottom stage has passive margins on each side at the edges of the continents. In the modern world, most of the ocean water is in the ocean basins. There are very few places where sea water sits on ...

The article "When the river meets the sea: Transport and provenance in a long-lived estuary" was published in Basin Research ... of the drowned continental margin, the ocean between Perth ...

Led by Stephan Graham and Zack Burton, the study examined hundreds of geological records from continental margins ... bypass closer basins, depositing them further out on the ocean floor.