Assertion: continental crust | /r/HasProperty | thick
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text: Continental crust is thick and old -- on average about 50 km thick and about 2 billion years old -- and it covers about 40 percent of the planet.
text: Continental crust is thick (18.6–40 mi [30–65 km]), granitic (>60% SiO 2 ), light, and old (250–3,700 million years old).
text: The continental crust can be between six and forty-seven miles thick.
text: On average the continental crust is ~30km thick and in some places it can be less.
text: Continental crust is thick - but after about 35 km of drilling, you would finally come to a different layer with a different chemical composition at a boundary called the Mohorovicic Discontinuity or Moho (named for the Croatian seismologist who discovered it).