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Summary Of: Continental crust

Continental crust is also less dense than... Because continental crust mostly lies above sealevel... The relative permanence of continental crust contrasts with the short life of oceanic crust... when active margins of continental crust meet oceanic crust in... continental crust is only rarely subducted or re... Continental crust and the rock layers that lie on and within it are thus the best archive... The thinnest continental crust is found in... Today continental crust is produced and destroyed mostly by... Continental crust is also lost... and deep subduction of continental crust in collision zones... and so could be the dominant mode of continental crust formation and destruction... a matter of debate whether the amount of continental crust has been increasing... 7 Ga ago continental crust constituted less than 10... The growth of continental crust appears to have occurred in...

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