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No. The asthenosphere is part of the upper mantle.
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What lies beneath the asthenosphere?
The asthenosphere is part of the upper mantle and it is beneath the lithosphere. Beneath the asthenosphere and mantle is the outer core and beneath that is the inner core.
What layer contains the lithosphere asthenosphere and mesosphere?
The layer containing the Lithosphere, Asthenosphere and Mesosphere is the Mantle. The Upper Mantle composes of the Lithosphere while the Lower Mantle composes the Asthenosphere.
What are the 2 layers of the mantle?
The upper mantle (asthenosphere) and the lower mantle
What contains the asthenosphere and the lower mantle?
The answer to this question would be the mantle.
Which is more viscous the asthenosphere or the mantle?
The asthenosphere is part of the mantle, so the question is misguided. It is less dense than the lower mantle.
What is the strong lower layer of the mantle?
the asthenosphere
What is a alternative name for lower mantle?
asthenosphere
Earths lower mantle lies just below the?
Upper Mantle. This is also called the Asthenosphere
What contains the lower mantle?
The mantle extends to the core-mantle interface at approximately 2900 km depth. Thus, the mantle contains the lower portion of the lithosphere, the asthenosphere, and the mesosphere. The crust is made of the upper portion of the lithosphere.
What parts of the earth make the asthenosphere?
The middle and lower mantle makes up the asthenosphere.
What is the plastic like rock of the lower mantle called?
the plasic like rock of the lower mantle is the asthenosphere
What part of the mantle is the asthenosphere found?
The asthenosphere lies in, and is the upper ductile part of, the mantle. It is the layer directly underneath the lithosphere; the layer composed of the crust and uppermost rigid mantle.
