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What are the crust and part of the upper mantle known as?
lithenosphere
The crust and part of the upper mantle are known as the what?
The crust and part of the upper mantle are known as the lithosphere. The lithosphere is the outermost solid shell of Earth that is broken into tectonic plates.
What is the crust and the upper mantle are called?
The crust and uppermost hard rocky mantle, together, is known as the lithosphere, which is above the plastic-like upper mantle area known as the asthenosphere.
What is the crust and the upper part of the mantle?
the lithosphere
Are tectonic plates made of mantle?
The solid portion of the upper mantle which behaves as a brittle solid is known as the lithospheric mantle. This part of the upper mantle along with the crust forms tectonic plates.
What is the crust and brittle upper mantle called?
Earth's crust and brittle upper mantle is called the lithosphere.
Is the upper mantle part of the lithosphere or asthenosphere?
The The crust and the uppermost layer of the mantle form the lithosphere. The asthenosphere, which is still in the upper mantle, is the next layer down.
What is the rigid part of the tectonic plates that is made up of oceanic crust or continental crust and the upper mantle?
the lithoseshere
What is the another name for crust?
The Earth's crust is also known as the "lithosphere" but that term geologically includes the upper elastic part of the mantle.
Plates are composed of the?
crust and part of the upper mantle
What part of the earth do the crustal plates float?
The Earth's crust, also called the lithosphere, floats on the upper layer of the mantle. This part of the mantle is known as the asthenosphere.
What is another name for the earths crust and upper mantle?
It is called the lithosphere.
