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crust
(redirected from crustal)

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the upper crust
people who have the highest social position and who are usually rich. Many treasures were brought back to Britain because its upper crust was wealthy and liked travelling abroad.
See also: upper

upper-crust

the upper crust - people who have the highest social position and who are usually rich. He spoke with an upper-crust accent.

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Indeed, the NESP preserves a remarkable record of deposition, magmatism, deformation, and metamorphism, which attests to several episodes of crustal growth and reworking between ca.
The few epidemiologic studies that have compared the relative effects of different sources on cardiovascular health suggest that combustion particles are more important than crustal particles (Laden et al.
In addition, the distribution and amount of displacement of the identified surface fault roughly corresponded to the those of crustal movements during the earthquake analyzed from satellite observations, as well as to the under-ground rupture process that was analyzed from seismic waves.
 
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