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The thinner but more dense crust of the earth is the Oceanic Crust.

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What is difference of the continental crust and the oceanic crust?

Continental crust is thicker but less dense, and oceanic crust is thinner but more dense, making it heavier.


Is the continental crust more dense than the oceanic crust?

Oceanic crust is thinner (about 6-8 km in total) and more dense. Continental crust is about 30-50 km thick.


What are the two types of crust on the earth?

There are two types of crust, and they are the oceanic crust and the continental crust. Oceanic crust is thinner yet more dense than continental crust, and continental crust is on average older than oceanic crust :)


How are oceanic crust and continental crust different?

Oceanic crust is thinner and more dense, while continental crust is thicker and less dense.


Which type of earth's crust is more dense?

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What is the difference of continental crust and oceanic crust?

Two differences are that the oceanic crust is more dense than continental, and continental crust is composed mostly of granite, while oceanic is mostly basalt


What type of earth plate is more dense?

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Why does the thickness of the Earth's crust range from 6 to 70km?

Earth's crust varies in thickness due to differences in composition and the effects of plate tectonics. Oceanic crust is thinner and more dense than continental crust, and thinnest where plates are diverging from each other. Continental crust is thickest at mountain ranges, where the crust has been thickened by plate collision or thermal uplift.


What layer of the earth is composed of material of the highest density?

Oceanic crust is more dense than continental crust.


Is the crust much more dense than the earth's center?

The earth's crust is less denser than the mantle.


What layer of the crust is the most dense?

Oceanic crust is more dense than continental crust.


What portion of the earths crust is more dense oceanic or contenintal?

Oceanic crust is more dense.