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Noun Concept
Categories: Earth's crust, Plate tectonics, Structure of the Earth
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continental crust  Continential crust  sial
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Continental crust is the layer of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks that forms the geological continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves. Wikipedia
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Continental crust is the layer of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks that forms the geological continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves. Wikipedia
Layer of rocks that forms the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves Wikidata
IS A
lithosphere
PART OF
Earth's crust
HAS KIND
passive margin
DIFFERENT FROM
continent
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continental crust
Wikidata
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continental crust
Wikipedia Redirections
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Continental Crust, Continential crust
Wikidata Alias
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sial

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