continental crust
English
Noun
continental crust (plural continental crusts)
- (geology) The layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the geological continents.
- Coordinate term: oceanic crust
- 1992, David Fountain; Richard Arculus; Robert W. Kay, editors, Continental Lower Crust, Elsevier Science Limited, page 198:
- As a result, very few regions of the continental crust are in truly static steady-state thermal conditions.
Further reading
- continental crust on Wikipedia.Wikipedia