continental crust in a sentence
Examples
- Normally, the continental crust is about thick, but it reaches thick under the Tibetan Plateau.
- The South American Plate drifted northward, riding up over the denser North American continental crust.
- The continental crust consists of lower density material such as the igneous rocks granite and andesite.
- The Valencia Trough consists of extended continental crust.
- :: Continental crust is what you're looking for.
- The CVZ is characterized by a continental crust that reaches a thickness of approximately 70 km.
- It was derived from the pre-existing continental crust.
- Convergent boundaries create foreland basins through tectonic compression of oceanic and continental crust during lithospheric flexure.
- With so much remodeling and recycling going on, recognizable remains of early continental crust are scarce.
- Plates include both oceanic crust and continental crust.