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What is the name of ocean crust?
oceanic crust.
What crust is more dense oceanic or continental crust?
Oceanic crust is significantly denser.
Is ocean crust or landform crust yonger?
When comparing an oceanic crust and a landform crust, the oceanic crust will be much younger. Typically, an oceanic crust is less than 200 million years old.
What are three differences between oceanic and continental crust?
Continental crust is mostly composed out of granite, oceanic crust out of basalt.Continental crust is thicker and less dense than oceanic crust.
What are the three differences between oceanic and Continental crust?
CONTINENTAL CRUST is 35km of thickness and oceanic is 7 km. i hope that helped
What is the name of ocean crust?
oceanic crust.
Oceanic crust is lighter than the continental crust?
No, the oceanic crust is denser. That's why the land areas "float" so much higher than the ocean bedrock.
What is oceanic-oceanic subduction?
Oceanic crust sinking under a plate with continental crust
What does it mean if the oceanic crust 0?
the oceanic crust is 0.
Is the oceanic crust felsic or mafic?
Oceanic crust is mafic.
Where are the youngest portion of Earth's crust found?
The youngest parts of the Earth's crust are found in the oceanic crust. This crust is continuously being created at the mid-oceanic ridges.
What crust is more dense oceanic or continental crust?
Oceanic crust is significantly denser.
What layer of crust averages 25 miles in thickness?
Continental crust.
Would it be better to drill through the earths crust or the oceanic crust?
oceanic crust
Oceanic crust is what than continental crust?
Oceanic crust is thinner and denser than continental crust.
What is older the oceanic crust or the continental crust?
Continental crust is far older than oceanic crust.
Is the continental crust thinner than the oceanic crust?
It is not. The oceanic crust is thinner than the continental crust!
