Types of Crust: Continental

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Clues

  • 0-3960 Ma (3)
  • 2.7 (7, 4)
  • Arabian Plate is almost entirely capped by continental, also most other plates carry continental crust (8)
  • Lithospheric mantle capped by defornmed granitic crust with igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks (7, 11)

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