The majority of the crust is oceanic crust, basaltic in nature.
Tectonic plates may be made of continental crust, oceanic crust, or both.
The earths crust is a part of the outermost layer.
Silicon is a mixture of the minerals of the earths crust. so.... silicon isn't something from the earths crust. -thanks for your question.
thinner and denser
how wide is the earths crust
the majority of it is found in water
Oceanic crust, new oceanic crust is produced by seafloor spreading.
Tension
Tectonic plates may be made of continental crust, oceanic crust, or both.
The earths crust is a part of the outermost layer.
The vast majority of the crust that the US has is continental crust, but the west side of the Andreas fault is mostly oceanic crust.
Silicon is a mixture of the minerals of the earths crust. so.... silicon isn't something from the earths crust. -thanks for your question.
Oxygen Silicon Sodium Potassium Magnesium Iron
majority of valcanoes follow the edges of the tectonic plates, which are the weaker parts of earths crust, therefore volcanoes form durin the crust giving away to the pressure built up. other volcaoes form other places due to weak parts of earths crust
thinner and denser
The Earths crust is approximately 650 km deep.
how wide is the earths crust