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Oceanic crust
The oceanic crust underlies the ocean basins and is equivalent to the sima. The oceanic crust is about 5 to 10 km thick, has a density of 3.0 g/cm3, and compressional seismic wave velocities exceeding 6.2 km/sec.
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