continental crust in a sentence
Examples
- They also found that the oceanic crust was much thinner than continental crust.
- Granites and similar rocks, known as meta-granitoids, form much of the continental crust.
- Oceanic crust is also denser than continental crust owing to their different compositions.
- The underwater part constitutes about 20 % of the continental crust.
- As the oceanic crust dives into trenches, the continental crust collects above them.
- When two plates containing continental crust collide, both are too light to subduct.
- "It's the infusion of all that granite that turns island arcs into continental crust,"
- When continents collide, the continental crust may thicken at their edges in the collision.
- This earthquake ruptured up to of the top part of the local continental crust.
- The Campbell Plateau is made of continental crust, but, as such, is unusually thin.