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Scaly Crust

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noun

• (botany) a covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts

• a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin

26%13 Depression in the Earth's crust where new crust is generated
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26%7 Result of oceanic crust being pushed beneath continental crust
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