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What kind of igneous rock makes up most continental crust rocks?
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∙ 12y ago
granite or rhyolite
Nannie Keeling
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∙ 12y agoContinental crust is mostly granitic in composition. Granitoid is a general term used to describe granite-like rock, which varies greatly in appearance, and has a multitude of possible mineral assemblages/percentages.
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∙ 13y agogranite or rhyolite
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∙ 14y agoGranite.
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∙ 14y agoPeridotite.
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∙ 13y agoGranite
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What kind of rock makes up most of the continental crust?
Granite is one of the main rocks that makes up the continental crust.
What rock makes up the continental crust?
The continental crust is made up of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. These rocks form the continents and the continental shelves, areas of seabed close to the shore.
The continental crust is composed of?
wht is the continental crust made of?
What type of rocks make up the earths crust?
The crust is composed of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
How are oceanic crust and continental crust similar?
They both behave as brittle solids and are both formed of a mixture of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks.
What kind of rock makes up most of the continental crust?
Granite is one of the main rocks that makes up the continental crust.
What rock makes up the continental crust?
The continental crust is made up of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. These rocks form the continents and the continental shelves, areas of seabed close to the shore.
Is continental crust is made of rocks such as granite?
There are many different ryes of rocks in continental crust. Granite is one of the rocks that makes up continental crust.
The continental crust is composed of?
wht is the continental crust made of?
What type of rocks make up the earths crust?
The crust is composed of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
What is the crust's continental crust?
Composed mostly of granite, the continental crust is the layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks which forms the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves
What kinds of rock make up continental crust?
Continental crustal rocks can be igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary, but the vast majority are igneous, most closely resembling granite in composition.
What are rocks that form Earth's crust?
The rocks of the crust are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic in origin. The base rock of the oceanic crust are mainly basaltic and the base rock of the continental crust is mainly granitic.
How are oceanic crust and continental crust similar?
They both behave as brittle solids and are both formed of a mixture of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks.
The continental crust is what?
Composed mostly of granite, the continental crust is the layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks which forms the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves
Granite is one of the main rocks that makes up continental crust which is?
The crust that forms the continents.
How are Ocean floor rocks are different from continental rocks?
Oceanic crust is composed primarily of the dense volcanic rock basalt. Continental crust is composed primarily of the intrusive igneous rock granite, less dense than basalt.
