continental crust in a sentence
Examples
- By comparison, the oldest dated continental crust is.
- The magma was contaminated with continental crust material.
- The rise most probably originates from subsided continental crust that fragmented as Australia and Antarctica separated.
- sill-like intrusions of basalt into lower continental crust.
- But even as the debate over ancient continental crust heats up, the terrain itself is cooling.
- It is now known that there are two kinds of crust : continental crust and oceanic crust.
- Thus incompatible elements are those that are enriched in the continental crust and depleted in the mantle.
- The Cameroon volcanic line is geologically unusual in extending through both the ocean and the continental crust.
- Delamination occurs when the lower continental crust and mantle lithosphere break away from the upper continental crust.
- It is thought that the melting and reworking of oceanic crust formed the early Archean continental crust.