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Given That the Asthenosphere Behaves Like a Plastic, Deforming Under

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Given that the asthenosphere behaves like a plastic, deforming under high pressures and temperatures, explain why oceanic crust always occurs at lower elevations/greater depths than continental crust.

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Oceanic crust is denser than c...

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