continental crust

noun

The layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the geological continents.

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nouncontinental crust (countable and uncountable, plural continental crusts)

plural continental crusts

  1. countableuncountablegeographyThe layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the geological continents.

    As a result, very few regions of the continental crust are in truly static steady-state thermal conditions.

    1992, David Fountain, Richard Arculus, Robert W. Kay, editors, Continental Lower Crust, Elsevier Science Limited, page 198
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