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The Earth's solid crust, the hard and thin top layer of the Earth, is made of ________and ______________

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Either solid rocks and minerals or granite and basalt
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granite and basalt

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The crust is composed of two basic rock types granite and basalt. The continental crust is composed mostly of granite. The oceanic crust consists of a volcanic lava rock called basalt. Basaltic rocks of the ocean plates are much denser and heavier than the granitic rock of the continental plates

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