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What sea is shallow because it is underlain by continental crust?
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This is the Continental Shelf - a marine-eroded platform submerged or exposed at any given time to a depth set by the state of the Earth's ice-cover at the time. (We are presently in an Ice Age interglacial.)
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What is a sentence using continental crust?
European royalty is not considered to part of the upper continental crust.The continental crust forms the continents and the shallow seabed close to their shores.
Which among is underlain by thin crust?
trees
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
Why is oceanic crust always subducted underneath the continental crust?
Oceanic crust subducts under continental crust because it is denser. Continental crust's density is too low for it to be forced into the mantle.
How do oceanic and continental crust differ?
Because the oceanic crust is under water in the ocean and a continental crust is land such as the continents
What is a sentence using continental crust?
European royalty is not considered to part of the upper continental crust.The continental crust forms the continents and the shallow seabed close to their shores.
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
Which among is underlain by thin crust?
trees
Is Africa underlain by thin crust?
yes
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
Does the continental or the oceanic crust extend farther into the mantle?
The continental crust because it is thicker than the oceanic crust
Why is oceanic crust always subducted underneath the continental crust?
Oceanic crust subducts under continental crust because it is denser. Continental crust's density is too low for it to be forced into the mantle.
How do oceanic and continental crust differ?
Because the oceanic crust is under water in the ocean and a continental crust is land such as the continents
How do the oceanic and continental crust differ?
Because the oceanic crust is under water in the ocean and a continental crust is land such as the continents
What happens when a plate of oceanic crust collides with a plate of the continental crust and why does this happen?
The oceanic crust will slide under the continental crust. And the reason is because the oceanic crust is much denser and the continental crust is least dense.
Is continental crust older than oceanic crust?
because
Is oceanic crust older than continental crust?
because
