continental crust
常見例句
- Continental crust averages some 25 miles (40 kilometers) thick, although it can be thinner or thicker in some areas. Oceanic crust is usually only about 5 miles (8 kilometers) thick.
大陸地殼平均厚度25英裡(40公裡),雖然在某些區(qū)域會稍厚或稍薄。 - The Himalayan Mountains are formed through the grinding, slow collision of two continental crust plates.
喜馬拉雅山脈形成於兩塊大陸板塊緩慢的摩擦與碰撞。 - It's here that two mighty shelves of continental crust, the African and Arabian plates, meet – and are tearing the landscape apart.
這裡正是非洲板塊和阿拉伯板塊相遇的地方,地貌在這裡被撕裂。 - Although continental crust is more or less permanent, the ocean floor is constantly recycled by the tectonic processes that bring about continental drift.
ECONOMIST: The rise of the dinosaurs - Plate tectonics, the formation of faults and the moving of the continental crust over a molten interior, is a characteristic unique to Earth and it meant that minerals evolved far beyond those on any other planet in the Solar System.
ECONOMIST: Minerals 返回 continental crust