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How do Oceanic crust and Continental crust vary?

Oceanic crust is thin and composed mostly of dense basaltic rock.Continental crust is thick and composed mostly of light granitic rock.


Oceanic crust is lighter than the continental crust?

No, the oceanic crust is denser. That's why the land areas "float" so much higher than the ocean bedrock.


What is oceanic-oceanic subduction?

Oceanic crust sinking under a plate with continental crust


Is the oceanic crust felsic or mafic?

Oceanic crust is mafic.


What does it mean if the oceanic crust 0?

the oceanic crust is 0.


What crust is more dense oceanic or continental crust?

Oceanic crust is significantly denser.


Where are the youngest portion of Earth's crust found?

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.


Would it be better to drill through the earths crust or the oceanic crust?

oceanic crust


What is older the oceanic crust or the continental crust?

Continental crust is far older than oceanic crust.


Is the continental crust thinner than the oceanic crust?

It is not. The oceanic crust is thinner than the continental crust!


What kind of plate boundary cost old and heavy crust to sink in to the mantle?

A subduction zone is the plate boundary where old and heavy oceanic crust sinks into the mantle. At subduction zones, oceanic crust is forced beneath another tectonic plate, typically a continental plate, due to differences in density. This process can lead to the formation of deep oceanic trenches and volcanic arcs on the overriding plate.


Is oceanic crust near the mid-ocean ridge older thean oceanic crust farther away from the ridge?

Its oceanic crust