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Oceanic crust - encyclopedia article about Oceanic crust. (639 words) |
 | Oceanic crust is the part of Earth's lithosphere which underlies the ocean basins. |
 | Oceanic crust is composed of mafic basaltic rocks. |
 | Most of the present day oceanic crust is less than 200 million years old because it is continuously being created at oceanic ridges and destroyed by being pulled back into the mantle in subduction zones by the processes of plate tectonics. |
| Oceanic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (141 words) |
 | the Oceanic languages, a subbranch of the Austronesian language family, covering the languages of the open Pacific Ocean, such as Micronesian and Polynesian. |
 | Oceanic Airlines, a fictional airline brand often used in disaster movies |
 | Oceanic Flight 815, a fictional airline flight featuring in the television series Lost |