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crustal
[ kruhs-tl ]
adjective
- of or relating to a crust, as of the earth.
crustal
/ ˈkrʌstəl /
adjective
- of or relating to the earth's crust
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Now, his team has discovered 58 unique crustal blocks on Venus’ crust.
Each one has a low-lying center plain, which they dubbed a “campus,” surrounded by rings of mountainous ridges which the team thinks formed from a kind of “jostling” action between the crustal blocks, says Byrne.
Water getting locked up in crustal minerals may be equally important as water loss to space and could potentially be more important.
Moreover, in most cases, they are not reversible as are the crustal and solar phenomena.
The fundamental conception of geography is form, including 620 the figure of the earth and the varieties of crustal relief.
Professor C. Lapworth has generalized the grand features of crustal relief in a scheme of attractive simplicity.
The dominant forms result from crustal movements, the subsidiary from secondary reactions Geology and land forms.
Thus we conclude that while climatic changes and crustal movements usually occur together, they may occur separately.
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