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Continental crust
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What is thinnest under the oceans and thickest through the continents?
The Earth's crust is thinnest under the oceans and thickest in the mountains.
Where is the crust deepest?
Deepest doesn't really make sense, so I'm going to answer assuming you meant thickest. Oceanic crust or continental crust? Oceanic crust is thickest at spreading centers and continental crust is deepest at collision zones, the Himalayan/Tibet collision zone to be exact.
What is the thickest part of the outermost layers?
The crust is the thickest under mountain ranges, up to 70 miles. Average depth of continental crust is 27 miles.
Deep ocean sediments are thickest where the underlying crust is?
oldest
Which of earth layers are the thickest?
As measured by its thickness from upper boundary to lower boundary in a downward direction, the mantle is the thickest layer of the Earth.
Where is the crust the thickest the plate?
The crust is thickest beneath the mountains.
What is the earth's crust the thickest?
the area of of earths crust that is the thickest is the mantle.
Where would crust be the thickest?
The crust is thickest under continents! The crust is thickest under Mount Everest, where it's approx. 65km deep
Where is the crust the thickest on plate?
Areas of crustal plates with mountains are the greatest in thickness.
What is thinnest under the oceans and thickest through the continents?
The Earth's crust is thinnest under the oceans and thickest in the mountains.
This layer of the earth's crust is the thickest?
continental crust
Where is the thickest part of earth's crust found?
The thickest part of the Earth is called the mantle.
Where is the crust the thickest on a plate?
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What is the thickest section of Earth?
Crust
Which landform is crust thickest?
mountains
What layer of the crust is thickest?
The answer is Continental crust.The Mantle is the thickest layer of the Earth. :)
What is the area of the Earth's crust?
the area of of earths crust that is the thickest is the mantle.
