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.)
Oceanic crust is typically thinner than continental crust.
Continental rifts, such as the East African Rift Zone, are often underlain by thin crust. This thinning of the crust is due to tectonic forces that are pulling the continent apart, causing the crust to stretch and thin in these regions.
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.
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
denser (Apex)
Oceanic crust is typically thinner than continental crust.
Continental rifts, such as the East African Rift Zone, are often underlain by thin crust. This thinning of the crust is due to tectonic forces that are pulling the continent apart, causing the crust to stretch and thin in these regions.
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.
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
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The continental crust because it is thicker than the oceanic 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
Because the oceanic crust is under water in the ocean and a continental crust is land such as the continents
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denser (Apex)
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