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What crust is older in years the continental or the oceanic?
Continental crust is far older than oceanic crust.
Is the earth's crust older than the ocean crust?
The continental crust (one component of the crust) is, on average, much older than the oceanic crust.
Which layer is older than oceanic crust made of granites and relatively thick?
Continental Crust.
What part is the thinner and denser part of the Earth's crust?
The continental crust is lighter, older, and generally thicker than the oceanic crust.
Why are the oldest parts of the ocean floor no older than about 200 million years.?
Because the oldest parts reach the continental crust and then the ocean floor sinks beneath the continental crust, into the mantle.
What is older the oceanic crust or the continental crust?
Continental crust is far older than oceanic crust.
What crust is older in years the continental or the oceanic?
Continental crust is far older than oceanic crust.
Is continental crust older than oceanic crust?
because
Is oceanic crust older than continental crust?
because
Is the earth's crust older than the ocean crust?
The continental crust (one component of the crust) is, on average, much older than the oceanic crust.
What are the two types of crust on the earth?
There are two types of crust, and they are the oceanic crust and the continental crust. Oceanic crust is thinner yet more dense than continental crust, and continental crust is on average older than oceanic crust :)
Which layer is older than oceanic crust made of granites and relatively thick?
Continental Crust.
What part is the thinner and denser part of the Earth's crust?
The continental crust is lighter, older, and generally thicker than the oceanic crust.
Is the continental crust thinner than the oceanic crust?
It is not. The oceanic crust is thinner than the continental crust!
Oceanic crust is what than continental crust?
Oceanic crust is thinner and denser than continental crust.
Why is the ocean crust thinner than the continental crust?
It is not. The oceanic crust is thinner than the continental crust!
How does the age of the oldest continental crust compare to the age of the oldest ocean crust?
The oldest continental crust would be between three and one half to four billion years older than the oldest oceanic crust. This is due to the fact that ocean plates are subducted under the continental plates, subjected to partial melt and essentially recycled in the mantle before reforming.
