continental crust

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Noun

continental crust (plural continental crusts)

  1. (geology) The layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the geological continents.
    Coordinate term: oceanic crust
    • 1992, David Fountain, Richard Arculus, Robert W. Kay, editors, Continental Lower Crust, Elsevier Science Limited, page 198:
      As a result, very few regions of the continental crust are in truly static steady-state thermal conditions.

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