oceanic crust

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1. See under crust

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Continental crust: The thick, buoyant type of crust that forms Earth's continents, distinct from the thinner oceanic crust.

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This missing step involves a sort of geologic juicing in a magma chamber where zircons form before they reach the surface, with oceanic crust entering the chamber ahead of continental crust.

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While the opening of the basin creates oceanic crust, its closing squeezes the crust into mountains -- bringing a geologic record of Earth history to the surface where humans can more easily access it, said coauthor Matt Malkowski, an assistant professor at the Jackson School's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

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In their paper, they propose a model where the same tectonic forces that squeeze the oceanic crust into mountains could be underthrusting parts of that crust and pushing it toward the magmatic chamber where the zircons are formed -- influencing the chemical signatures recorded in the crystals during the early to middle stages of closure.

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As the continents continue to squeeze together, the oceanic crust is eventually replaced by continental crust, the source of the pulldown signal.

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