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continental crust

layer of rocks that forms the continents and continental shelves
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continental crust

Summary

continental crust ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,032 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • continental crust is a type of lithosphere[2].
  • continental crust is a type of landform[3].
  • continental crust is part of Earth's crust[4].
  • continental crust is the opposite of oceanic crust[5].
  • continental crust's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Continental crust[6].
  • continental crust's different from is recorded as continent[7].
  • continental crust's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000748[8].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include lithosphere[2] and landform[3]. continental crust is the opposite of oceanic crust[5].

Use and Application

continental crust is part of Earth's crust[4].

Why It Matters

continental crust ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,032 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Part of → Earth's crust
    Opposite of → oceanic crust
    Subclass of → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007556982905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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