noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Earth’s crust
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Volcanoes and earthquakes occur where there is movement in the Earth’s crust.
upper crust
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
continental
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Sumatra is composed of old, thick continental crust comprising volcanic rocks of Permian, Cretaceous and Cenozoic age.
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The Supercontinent Cycle alone has left the continental crust riddled with the scars of former rifts and mergers.
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Continental lithosphere stands higher than oceanic lithosphere because continental crust is both of greater thickness and lower density than oceanic crust.
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Like a cracked china cup, the continental crust is still fragile where it has been damaged in the past.
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This would be expected from differences in the density and thickness of continental and oceanic crust .
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The upper layer of a plate is composed of either oceanic or continental crust or both.
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The extent of subduction of continental crust below the Himalayas is also in dispute.
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Subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a plate carrying continental crust gives rise to a continental-margin orogen.
low
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The earlier notion that the lower continental crust is largely basaltic in composition has received little support from more recent studies.
new
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She pencilled on a new crust of eyeshadow and lipstick.
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At the beginning of each belt was a mid-ocean ridge, where new ocean crust was made.
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This proposed that mid-oceanic ridges represent regions where new oceanic crust is being generated by the upwelling of hot mantle material.
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Somehow these shallow reservoirs must provide the stuff that makes new ocean crust .
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Faster than new crust can be added to the plate, old crust is being consumed by the trench.
oceanic
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Continental lithosphere stands higher than oceanic lithosphere because continental crust is both of greater thickness and lower density than oceanic crust.
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This would be expected from differences in the density and thickness of continental and oceanic crust .
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The upper layer of a plate is composed of either oceanic or continental crust or both.
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The composition of displaced terranes ranges from that of typical oceanic crust to significantly less dense granitic rock with clear continental affinities.
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It appeared that these offsets marked some kind of lateral movement between adjacent sections of oceanic crust .
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Its purpose is to gather sufficient information to answer questions about magma chambers in oceanic crust .
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From these observations, Hofmann and I proposed that plumes consist in part of deeply subducted oceanic crust and sediment.
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Hess mistakenly thought that the oceanic crust consisted of altered peridotite, the material of the mantle itself.
thick
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Sumatra is composed of old, thick continental crust comprising volcanic rocks of Permian, Cretaceous and Cenozoic age.
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For a thicker crust , repeat each step just before frying.
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Have thick crust pizza, extra potatoes, thick sliced bread or rolls with your meal.
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Appetising colour and nice thick crust .
thin
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The thinnest crusts are known as desert varnish.
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The signature pizza has a thin , thin crust and practically no edge.
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There is a thin crust from the snow that fell the night before last.
upper
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In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could.
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Only society's upper crust would have traveled in the car, known as the limousine of its day.
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Precision dating of mineral deposits Many mineral deposits are the result of large-scale circulation of hydrothermal fluid in the upper crust .
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Those disgraceful students were males from the upper crust .
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In fact there were complaints from upper crust visitors about the din, so the cells fell into disuse.
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The homes, table settings and spreads, flowers and food are definitely upper crust .
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We are in upper-crust country.
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The upper crust does not ride public transportation.
■ NOUN
ocean
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They are similar to the lavas from which the Earth's ocean crusts are made, but much older.
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At the beginning of each belt was a mid-ocean ridge, where new ocean crust was made.
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Judging from the minerals present in the mass of water, it appeared to have spurted out of the ocean crust .
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Like a bulldozer, it plowed rock off the ocean crust that was descending and piled it into hills along its edge.
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Where the ocean crust is young, lava flows dominate the landscape.
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Somehow these shallow reservoirs must provide the stuff that makes new ocean crust .
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These might consist of old ocean crust or material from one of the boundary layers.
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The cold, bottom water that percolates down into the cracks in the ocean crust carries its own complement of chemicals.
pie
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Back in the cabin I mix the berries with sugar and lemon peel, then roll out the pie crusts .
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Call it fear of pie crust .
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She brags about success with pie crust .
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Makes one 9-inch pie crust .&038;.
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Pizza means pie and a pie crust should crackle.
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Cake or pastry flour is good for both cakes and pie crusts but will not hold the dome of loaf bread.
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Spoon ice-cream mixture into ready-made pie crust .
■ VERB
earn
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This is the toughest place to earn a crust with limited resources.
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Her entire knowledge of what he had to do to earn his crust amounted to not a row of beans.
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Kitty Butterwick clears away all the crumbs to find loaves which truly earn their crust .
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But I thought I might be able to earn a crust by it, you know?
form
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The continents sit on shifting plates that form the outer crust of the Earth; and the oceans fill the spaces in between.
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From such melts the lower density silicates separated upwards to form a crust .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a pizza with a thin, crispy crust
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Jimmy only eats sandwiches with the crusts cut off.
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the Earth's crust
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was a nightmare of a trip, the trucks constantly breaking through the crust and having to be dug out.
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The extra rises will affect the crust , texture, and flavor, usually giving a crustier, slightly more sour loaf.
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The heat sets the crust and quickly evaporates the surface moisture, crisping the crust.
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The thickness of the crust , for example, varies widely between continents and oceans.
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Use the sharp knife to cut off the crusts.
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We were barely twenty when we got married, back before the Earth's crust cooled.