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What crust is more dense oceanic or continental crust?
Oceanic crust is significantly denser.
What are three differences between oceanic and continental crust?
Continental crust is mostly composed out of granite, oceanic crust out of basalt.Continental crust is thicker and less dense than oceanic crust.
What is the name of ocean crust?
The name of the crust beneath the oceans is called "oceanic crust." It is thinner and younger than continental crust and primarily composed of basaltic rocks.
What are the three differences between oceanic and Continental crust?
CONTINENTAL CRUST is 35km of thickness and oceanic is 7 km. i hope that helped
What are four differences between the oceanic crust and the continental crust?
1. The Oceanic crust is dense while the Continental crust is relatively lighter. 2. The Oceanic crust consists of Silicon and Magnessium, while the Continental crust has Silicon and Alluminium. 3. The Oceanic crust is thin, while the Continental crust is thick. 4. The Oceanic crust makes up the ocean floor, while the Continental crust carries the continents.
What are the properties of the five layers of Earth?
the lithosphere, the asthenosphere, the mesosphere, the oceanic crust and the continental crust.
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 are the different properties of the layers of the earth?
1. lithosphere 2.asthenosphere 3.mesosphere 4.oceanic crust 5.continental crust
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.
What are 2 differences about the cotineantal and oceanic crust?
The two main differences between continental and oceanic crust are their composition and thickness. Continental crust is primarily made up of granitic rocks, which are less dense than the basaltic rocks that make up oceanic crust. Additionally, continental crust is much thicker, averaging around 35 km thick, compared to oceanic crust, which is typically around 7 km thick. These differences in composition and thickness contribute to the contrasting properties and behaviors of continental and oceanic crust in geological processes.
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!
