Continental crust is typically 40 km 25 miles thick while oceanic crust is much thinner.
Is granite oceanic crust.
The crust overlies the solidified and uppermost layer of the mantle the crust and the solid mantle layer together constitute oceanic lithosphere.
The lower layer of oceanic.
Continental crust is broadly granitic in composition and with a density of about 2 7 grams per cubic cm is somewhat lighter than oceanic crust which is basaltic i e richer in iron and magnesium than granite in composition and has a density of about 2 9 to 3 grams per cubic cm.
Oceanic crust is the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of a tectonic plate it is composed of the upper oceanic crust with pillow lavas and a dike complex and the lower oceanic crust composed of troctolite gabbro and ultramafic cumulates.
Oceanic crust is made up of several layers with the topmost layer being just 500 meters thick.
Composition of oceanic crust.
The difference in composition between the mantle and the two layers of the crust is maintained by.
This is made up of basaltic rocks in the shape of pillows and sheets.
It is thinner denser younger and of different.
Oceanic crust is about 6 km 4 miles thick.
On the other hand continental crust remains where it is for billions of years and it is much older than oceanic crust.
It is composed of several layers not including the overlying sediment.