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continental margin

zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust
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continental margin

Summary

continental margin ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (216 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • continental margin is a type of seabed[2].
  • continental margin is a type of type of environment[3].
  • continental margin is a type of undersea landform[4].
  • continental margin's Commons category is recorded as Continental margin[5].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include seabed[2], type of environment[3], and undersea landform[4].

Why It Matters

continental margin ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (216 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[6] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[7]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → seabed, type of environment, undersea landform
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007557834305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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