In which stage of the rifting process are plate edges considered to be passive continental margins?
A) After rifting has been completed.
B) As basalts begin to fill the rift to form new ocean crust.
C) In the initial stages of continental rifting.
D) When seawater from an adjacent ocean inundates a young rift.
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