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continental crusts

continental crusts is the plural of continental crust.

Meaning of continental crust

Noun

continental crust (countable and uncountable, plural continental crusts)

  1. The 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

Questions about continental crusts

What is continental crusts the plural of?
Continental crusts is the plural of continental crust.

Words near continental crusts in the dictionary

  1. continent of stability
  2. continental
  3. continental breakfast
  4. continental breakfasts
  5. continental crust
  6. continental crusts
  7. continental divide
  8. continental divides
  9. continental drift
  10. continental drip
  11. continental Europe

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