"continental crust" meaning in English

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          "text": "Coordinate term: oceanic crust"
        },
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          "ref": "1992, David Fountain, Richard Arculus, Robert W. Kay, editors, Continental Lower Crust, Elsevier Science Limited, page 198:",
          "text": "As a result, very few regions of the continental crust are in truly static steady-state thermal conditions.",
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        "The layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the geological continents."
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          "igneous",
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          "sedimentary",
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          "metamorphic",
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        "(geology) The layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the geological continents."
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        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
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