Industry, sector and description for Universal Display. Universal Display researches, develops, and sells organic light emitting diode (OLED) technologies and materials for the flat-panel display industry.
The first requirement for all master horizons other than O horizons is that they are composed mostly of mineral material. It is very important to be able to differentiate organic from mineral material. Dark color of the A horizon is due to the mixing of humus with mineral.
Long story short - continental crust is thicker because is less dense, and it is less dense because it's composed mostly of quartz and feldspars, both having density around 2.6 g/cm3, whereas oceanic crust is made up by slightly denser Ca feldspar called plagioclase as well as pyroxenes and olivine, both having density above 3 g/dm3.