Assertion: lithosphere's crust | /r/HasProperty | thin
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: relatively
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Oceanic crust is relatively thin and dense, dominated by basaltic rock rich in silica and magnesium.
text: During the climax of lithospheric rifting, as the crust is thinned, the Earth's surface subsides and the Moho becomes correspondingly raised.
text: The crust is the very thin layer that surrounds the Earth, and it differs depending on its location:
text: The crust is the thinnest layer and it constitutes less than 1% of the total volume of the earth.
text: The crust is a thin but important zone where dry, hot rock from the deep Earth reacts with the water and oxygen of the surface, making new kinds of minerals and rocks.
text: Earth’s crust is the planet’s thinnest layer, accounting for just 1% of Earth’s mass.
text: The crust is the thin outer layer of the Earth where we live.
text: The crust is very thin, relative to the radius of the planet.
text: Oceanic crust is thin and young -- no more than about 20 km thick and no older than about 180 million years.
text: Oceanic crust, being so thin, is a very small fraction of the Earth -- about 0.1 percent -- but its life cycle serves to separate the contents of the upper mantle into a heavy residue and a lighter set of basaltic rocks.
text: Compared to the rest of the layers, the crust is relatively thin and light.
text: The physical explanation for this condition is that the continental crust is light and thick while the oceanic crust is dense and thin.
text: Continental crust is thick (25-70 km thick), low in density, and has an intermediate average composition; oceanic crust is thin (typically 5-10 km thick), higher in density, and has a mafic average composition.
text: Oceanic crust is thin (~6 km thick) and dense (about 3.3 g/cm³), consisting of basalt, gabbro, and peridotite.
text: The crust is very thin.
text: The crust is very thin relative to the radius of the planet.
text: The oceanic crust is relatively thin and lies above the mantle.
text: Crust is very thin relative to Earth’s radius.
text: Where the lithospheric plates separate and the crust is thinned, the underlying parts of the lithosphere in the mantle also must diverge, allowing hot material from the asthenosphere to rise to shallow depths.