The continental shelf is normally made out of continental crust, the oceanic crust begins at the base of the continental rise. However in most places the oceanic crust near the continental margins is covered by continental sediments (eroded form the continents) carried down onto the Oceanic planes by deep sea canyons running off the continental rises.
The lithosphere can have two main types of crust: continental crust and oceanic crust. Continental crust is thicker, older, and less dense than oceanic crust. Oceanic crust is thinner, younger, and denser, primarily composed of basaltic rocks.
Crust under the oceans is called oceanic crust.
Continental crust is the thicker, less dense, and older type of crust found beneath continents, primarily composed of granite and sedimentary rock. Oceanic crust is the thinner, more dense, and younger type of crust located beneath oceans, primarily composed of basalt. The boundary between continental and oceanic crust is known as the continental-oceanic crust boundary.
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 :)
Continental crust is the thicker of the two: it extends far beneath and above the Oceanic crust.
It begins at the continental rise.
No, the oceanic crust is denser. That's why the land areas "float" so much higher than the ocean bedrock.
Oceanic crust sinking under a plate with continental crust
Oceanic crust is mafic.
the oceanic crust is 0.
Oceanic crust is significantly denser.
The youngest parts of the Earth's crust are found in the oceanic crust. This crust is continuously being created at the mid-oceanic ridges.
oceanic crust
Continental crust is far older than oceanic crust.
It is not. The oceanic crust is thinner than the continental crust!
Its oceanic crust
Continental crust is mostly composed out of granite, oceanic crust out of basalt.Continental crust is thicker and less dense than oceanic crust.