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The Continental Crust

It is much older than oceanic crust, some of it dating back nearly four billion years. It is constantly reworked, however, by cycles of tectonics, volcanism, erosion and sedimentation

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 249 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “The Continental Crust” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 249 No. 3 (), p. 130
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0983-130