continental crust

English

Noun

continental crust (plural continental crusts)

1. (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