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Continental and Oceanic Topographic Extremes

Earth’s elevation range is divided across fundamentally different crustal environments: continental crust and oceanic crust.

Any planetary-scale reconstruction must distinguish between these domains before assigning interpretation to extreme elevations.

Continental Elevation Distribution

Continental highs are shaped by crustal thickness, tectonic uplift, erosion, isostasy, and long-duration structural inheritance.

Oceanic Depth Distribution

Oceanic lows are shaped by lithospheric age, trench systems, plate interactions, density structure, and basin-scale organization.

Framework Relevance

Earth: Day Zero evaluates continental and oceanic extremes as separate but potentially interacting constraint classes within a larger global reconstruction.

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