what is continental mass?
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The continental land rising more or less abruptly from the ocean floor and also the shallow submerged areas surrounding this land.
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Continental crust is the layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the geological continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves. This layer is sometimes called sial because its bulk composition is richer in silicates and aluminium minerals and has a lower density compared to the oceanic crust, called sima which is richer in magnesium silicate minerals and is denser. Changes in seismic wave velocities have shown that at a certain depth (the Conrad discontinuity), there is a reasonably sharp contrast between the more felsic upper continental crust and the lower continental crust, which is more mafic in character.
The thickness of Earth's crust (km)
Continental and oceanic crust on the upper earth mantle
The continental crust consists of various layers, with a bulk composition that is intermediate (SiO2 wt% = 60.6[1]). The average density of continental crust is about 2.83 g/cm3,[2] less dense than the ultramafic material that makes up the mantle, which has a density of around 3.3 g/cm3. Continental crust is also less dense than oceanic crust, whose density is about 2.9 g/cm3. At 25 to 70 km, continental crust is considerably thicker than oceanic crust, which has an average thickness of around 7–10 km. About 40% of Earth's surface area[3] and about 70% of the volume of the Earth's crust is continental crust.[4]
Most continental crust is dry land above sea level. However, 94% of the Zealandia continental crust region is submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean,[5] with New Zealand constituting 93% of the above-water portion.
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