continental crust

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Continental crust averages some 25 miles (40 kilometers) thick, although it can be thinner or thicker in some areas. Oceanic crust is usually only about 5 miles (8 kilometers) thick.
大陆地壳平均厚度25英里（40公里），虽然在某些区域会稍厚或稍薄。
The Himalayan Mountains are formed through the grinding, slow collision of two continental crust plates.
喜马拉雅山脉形成于两块大陆板块缓慢的摩擦与碰撞。
It's here that two mighty shelves of continental crust, the African and Arabian plates, meet – and are tearing the landscape apart.
这里正是非洲板块和阿拉伯板块相遇的地方，地貌在这里被撕裂。

Although continental crust is more or less permanent, the ocean floor is constantly recycled by the tectonic processes that bring about continental drift.
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Plate tectonics, the formation of faults and the moving of the continental crust over a molten interior, is a characteristic unique to Earth and it meant that minerals evolved far beyond those on any other planet in the Solar System.
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the surface of the earth that is about 35 kilometres thick and includes the land masses and the solid rock below them

that part of the earth's crust that underlies the continents and continental shelves