Look up: lithosphere

1. Lithosphere
   [album] Lithosphere (2005) is a collaborative album by electronic musicians Robert Rich and Ian Boddy. Like their previous collaboration Outpost, this album was released as a limited edition of 2000 copies. ==Track listing== ==Personnel== ...
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2. lithosphere
   The component of the Earth's surface comprising the rock, soil, and sediments. It is a relatively passive component of the climate system, and its physical character- istics are treated as fixed elements in the determination of climate.
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3. Lithosphere
   The outer, rigid shell of the earth. It is composed of the entire crust and uppermost part of the mantle. The thickness of the lithosphere varies from around 5km to up to 100km where there is thick continental crust. The lithosphere is above the more ductile asthenosphere. The boundary between these...
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4. lithosphere
   [n] - the solid part of the earth
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5. lithosphere
   Lithosphere is the outer layer of the solid earth, extending from the base of the mantle to the surface of the crust.
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6. lithosphere
   the outer solid shell of the Earth; the solid portion of the Earth, as contrasted with the atmosphere and the hydrosphere. It generally includes the crust and the uppermost mantle, and is of the order of 100 kilometres in thickness; that part of the Earth lying above the Monorovicic discontinuity Category: The cosmos
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7. Lithosphere
   Lith'o·sphere noun [ Litho- + sphere .] (Physics Geology) (a) The solid earth as distinguished from its fluid envelopes, the hydrosphere and atmosphere. (b) The outer part of the solid earth, the portion undergoing ...
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8. lithosphere
   geosphere noun the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle
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9. Lithosphere
   • (n.) The outer part of the solid earth, the portion undergoing change through the gradual transfer of material by volcanic eruption, the circulation of underground water, and the process of erosion and deposition. It is, therefore, regarded as a third mobile envelope comparable with the hydro...
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10. lithosphere
    (from the article `Earth`) ...On geologic timescales, the mantle behaves as a very viscous fluid and responds to stress by flowing. Together the uppermost mantle and the crust ... ...began undergoing a revolution from the 1950s. Theories of continental drift and seafloor spreading evolved into plate tectonics, the concept that ... Th...
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11. lithosphere
    lithosphere Related 'stone, rock' word families: lapid-; petro-; saxi-; stele-.
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12. Lithosphere
    The lithosphere (Greek: λίθος [lithos] for "rocky" + σφαῖρα [sphaira] for "sphere") is the rigid outermost shell of a rocky planet. On Earth, it comprises the crust and the portion of the upper mantle that behaves elastically on time scales of thousands of years or greater. == Earth`s lithosphere == In the Earth the lithosphere in...
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13. Lithosphere
    Is the solid inorganic portion of the Earth (composed of rocks, minerals, and elements). It can be regarded as the outer surface and interior of the solid Earth.
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14. LITHOSPHERE
    The solid, outer portion of the earth's crust coupled to the rigid upper mantle. Part of the geosphere.
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15. lithosphere
    The crust and uppermost mantle of a planet or moon. Earth's lithosphere is about 100 km thick, though its thickness is age dependent (older lithosphere is thicker). Below the lithosphere is the asthenosphere.
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16. Lithosphere
    the rigid top layer of the earth that includes the crust (see tectonic plate) and the upper mantle. See asthenosphere.
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17. lithosphere
    lithosphere (lith'usfēr ") , brittle uppermost shell of the earth, broken into a number of tectonic plates. The lithosphere consists of the heavy oceanic and lighter continental crusts, and the uppermost portion of the mantle. The crust and mantle are separated by the Moho or Mohorovic...
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18. lithosphere
    Upper rocky layer of the Earth that forms the jigsaw of plates that take part in the movements of plate tectonics. The lithosphere comprises the crust and a portion of the upper mantle. It is regarded as being rigid and brittle and moves about on the more plastic and less brittle asthenosphere. The lithosphere ranges in thickness from 2–3 km&#...
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19. lithosphere
    a strong layer of the Earth, about 100 km in thickness, consisting of the Earth's crust and a portion of the underlying upper mantle. This layer lies on top of the weaker asthenosphere.
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20. Lithosphere
    The outer, rigid shell of the Earth above the asthenosphere. It contains the crust, continents, and plates.
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21. lithosphere
    (Gk: lithos stone) the crust of Earth, inside which is the mantle and the core.
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22. Lithosphere
    The rigid crust and uppermost mantle of the earth. Thickness is on the order of 60 miles (100 km). Stronger than the underlying asthenosphere.
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23. lithosphere
    lithosphere. The outer solid part of the earth, including the crust and uppermost mantle. The lithosphere is about 100 km thick, although its thickness is age dependent (older lithosphere is thicker).The lithosphere below the crust is brittle enough at some locations to produce earthquakes by faulting, such as within a subducted oceanic plate.
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24. lithosphere
    The solid outer layer of the Earth; includes both the land area and the land beneath the oceans and other water bodies.
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25. lithosphere
    the solid outermost shell of a rocky planet.
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