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Which plate, oceanic or continental, must be more dense? How do you know
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Oceanic crust is not only thinner and denser than continental crust, and it is also much younger than it and has a different chemical composition. When magma from the mantle of the earth finds a way up, it comes into contact with water that cools it down quickly

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