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oceanic crust

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oceanic crust
See under crust.


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It also has some of the youngest oceanic crust subducting anywhere," he added.
The notion that rifted continental margins consist of thinned, extended continental crust abutting normal oceanic crust was dispelled years ago, nowhere more emphatically than in studies of the Iberian margin, where serpentinized peridotite was discovered intervening between extended continental crust and oceanic crust.
Previous studies have suggested that the slow, steady collision between the Nazca Plate, made of dense oceanic crust, and the South American plate, of lighter, continental crust, gradually lifted the Andes.
 
 
 
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