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Continental Crust Defined
Solid, outer layers of the earth, including the rocks of the continents.
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The Real Story Behind the 'Roof of the World'
Published August 21, 2008, 11:10 am, LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News
It's called the "Roof of the World" with good reason - the Tibetan Plateau stands over 3 miles above sea level and is surrounded by imposing mountain ranges that harbor the world's two highest summits, Mount Everest and K2. While the world's top mountaineers regularly attempt to summit the forbidding peaks, the remote area is home to a rich variety of cultures, from villages in Pakistan that ...
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- Eclogite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Eclogite, a rock similar to basalt in composition, is composed primarily of sodic clinopyroxene and garnet. Eclogite is associated with peridotite in some xenolith occurrences; it also occurs with peridotite in rocks metamorphosed at high pressures during
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- Google Image Result for http://www.ear thscrust.org/e arthscrust/sci ence/startups/ img/cocorp_loc ation1.gif: During the 1960's and 1970's the oil exploration industry was using seismic reflection profiling techniques extensively throughout the world in their quest to secure new oil and gas reserves. The reflection profiling technique for exploring sub-surfac
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