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  2. Continental shelf - Wikipedia

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    The shelf surrounding an island is known as an "insular shelf." The continental margin , between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain , comprises a steep continental slope, surrounded by the flatter continental rise , in which sediment from the continent above cascades down the slope and accumulates as a pile of sediment at the base of ...

  3. Insular cortex - Wikipedia

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    The insular cortex is divided by the central sulcus of the insula, into two parts: the anterior insula and the posterior insula in which more than a dozen field areas have been identified. The cortical area overlying the insula toward the lateral surface of the brain is the operculum (meaning lid ).

  4. Continental margin - Wikipedia

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    Profile illustrating the shelf, slope and rise. A continental margin is the outer edge of continental crust abutting oceanic crust under coastal waters.It is one of the three major zones of the ocean floor, the other two being deep-ocean basins and mid-ocean ridges.

  5. Operculum (brain) - Wikipedia

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    The insular lobe is a portion of the cerebral cortex that has invaginated to lie deep within the lateral sulcus. It sits like an island (the meaning of insular ) almost surrounded by the groove of the circular sulcus and covered over and obscured by the insular opercula.

  6. Limen insulae - Wikipedia

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    It is the lateral most limit of the anterior perforated substance and the starting point of the insular cortex. The limen insulae translates as the threshold to the insula, and is the point at which the insular cortex is continuous with cortex over the amygdala and superior temporal gyrus.

  7. External capsule - Wikipedia

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    The external capsule is a series of white matter fiber tracts in the brain.These fibers run between the most lateral (toward the side of the head) segment of the lentiform nucleus (more specifically the putamen) and the claustrum.

  8. Intermontane Belt - Wikipedia

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    This coastline and continental shelf was located adjacent to the eastern margin of Methow Valley. [1] The Insular Plate continued to subduct under the new continental shelf and coastline about 130 million years ago during the mid Cretaceous period after the formation of the Intermontane Belt, supporting a new continental volcanic arc called the ...

  9. Extreme capsule - Wikipedia

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    The extreme capsule is separated from the external capsule by the claustrum, and the extreme capsule separates the claustrum from the insular cortex, and all these lie lateral to the corpus striatum components. [2] [3] From the midline of the brain to the side, the extreme capsule is the outermost from the external capsule and the inner ...