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Q: What part of earth is the continents and ocean basins?
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What is the ocean crust?

Oceanic crust is the part of Earth's lithosphere that surfaces in the ocean basins.


What is the ocean's crust?

Oceanic crust is the part of Earth's lithosphere that surfaces in the ocean basins.


What The ocean crust is?

Oceanic crust is the part of Earth's lithosphere that surfaces in the ocean basins.


What do you call the thin and thick part of the crust?

The thin part of the crust is called ocean basins. The thick part of the crust is called continents.


The continents and the ocean basin make up a part of the earth called the ...............?

The Hydrosphere


Define ocean basin?

Hydrologically, an oceanic basin may be anywhere on Earth that is covered by seawater, but geologicallyocean basins are large geologic basins that are below sea level. Geologically, there are other underseageomorphological features such as the continental shelves, the deep ocean trenches, and the underseamountain ranges (for example, the mid-Atlantic ridge) which are not considered to be part of the ocean basins; while hydrologically, oceanic basins include the flanking continental shelves and shallow, epeiric seas.


What part are the Earth continents are part of?

The lithosphere.


Earth's continents are part of the?

crust


What does the ocean basin consists of?

its basinly in the ocean


What are Islands and continents a part of?

The Earth (land).


Which layer of the earth are the continents a part of?

the crust.


Why are the continents of the earth is not included in the part of the original crust?

The continents of the Earth are not included in the part of the original crust because they appear differently. These continents used to all be one large continent called Pangaea.