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the outermost layer of the earth. It includes the oceanic crust (about 5-10 miles thick) and the continental crust (50-75 miles thick). The bottom of the crust is the Mohorovicic Discontinuity ("Moho").
Ãâó: www.tc.umn.edu/~smith213/Glossary%20A%20F.htm
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the thin, outermost, solid layer of the Earth. It varies in thickness from 5 km beneath the oceans (oceanic crust) to 60 km beneath mountain chains (Continental crust). It is broken into a number of plates.
Ãâó: www.sedgwickmuseum.org/education/glossary.html
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| crust |
The surface layer of the earth
Ãâó: resweb.llu.edu/rford/docs/VGD/GSLVT/gslglossary.ht...
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| crust |
A synonym for sediment.
Ãâó: www.fogwells.com/webworks/glossary/c-e.html
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The name applied to sediment that forms in the bottom and sides of a wine bottle, commonly found in Vintage Ports.
Ãâó: www.eosvintage.com/glossary.html
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