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The mantle rock descending from the oceanic crust causes the water in oceanic crust to be released. This lowers the melting point of the rock and causes it to melt.
Overall their materials are of the same age, but the continental plates simply break or collide whereas the ocean-floor plates are in constant cycles of construction and destruction.
The oceans flow to the places where the crust is the lowest. Gravity causes them to flow downward. The mantle, below the crust, is at the same depth everywhere, so if the crust is lower, it is because it is thinner.
1. The Oceanic crust is dense while the Continental crust is relatively lighter. 2. The Oceanic crust consists of Silicon and Magnessium, while the Continental crust has Silicon and Alluminium. 3. The Oceanic crust is thin, while the Continental crust is thick. 4. The Oceanic crust makes up the ocean floor, while the Continental crust carries the continents.
The continental crust is less dense
Continental crust A+
what is the continental crust
The mantle rock descending from the oceanic crust causes the water in oceanic crust to be released. This lowers the melting point of the rock and causes it to melt.
continental crust
Continental crust is the thicker of the two: it extends far beneath and above the Oceanic crust.
Continental crust.
I think it is the continental crust
Oceanic crust is thinner and denser than continental crust.
Continental crust is far older than oceanic crust.
It is not. The oceanic crust is thinner than the continental crust!
continental crust
It is not. The oceanic crust is thinner than the continental crust!