| 11. | They also found that the oceanic crust was much thinner than continental crust.
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| 12. | Granites and similar rocks, known as meta-granitoids, form much of the continental crust.
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| 13. | Oceanic crust is also denser than continental crust owing to their different compositions.
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| 14. | The underwater part constitutes about 20 % of the continental crust.
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| 15. | As the oceanic crust dives into trenches, the continental crust collects above them.
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| 16. | When two plates containing continental crust collide, both are too light to subduct.
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| 17. | "It's the infusion of all that granite that turns island arcs into continental crust,"
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| 18. | When continents collide, the continental crust may thicken at their edges in the collision.
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| 19. | This earthquake ruptured up to of the top part of the local continental crust.
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| 20. | The Campbell Plateau is made of continental crust, but, as such, is unusually thin.
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