Adjective
Relating to a crust.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAs a result of remelting of basaltic oceanic crust due to subduction, the cores of the first continents grew large enough to withstand crustal recycling processes. Source: Internet
Beginning about 200 million years ago, forces within the Earth's mantle began to separate the lands of the Southern Hemisphere, and a crustal plate supporting both India and Sri Lanka moved toward the northeast. Source: Internet
A subduction zone is a type of contact between different crustal plates where heavier crust slides below lighter crust. Source: Internet
It does not currently have a global dipolar magnetic field and only has crustal magnetization, probably acquired early in lunar history when a dynamo was still operating. Source: Internet
Guo, Z., and M. Wilson (2012) The Himalayan leucogranites: Constraints on the nature of their crustal source region and geodynamic setting. Source: Internet
However, there is little evidence of formation of palimpsests through viscoelastic crustal relaxation, unlike on other large icy moons. Source: Internet