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The crust and uppermost brittle mantle are referred to as the lithosphere.

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What layers of earth makes up the lithosphere?

Crust and the upper mantle


How do you make a sentence with upper mantle?

The crust and upper mantle make up the earth.


What is the crust and brittle upper mantle called?

Earth's crust and brittle upper mantle is called the lithosphere.


What is another name for the earths crust and upper mantle?

It is called the lithosphere.


Large segments of the crust and upper mantle known as?

Large segments of the crust and upper mantle known as the Lithospheric plates.


Which layer of the earth contains the crust and upper mantle?

The layer of the Earth that contains both the crust and 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 meaning of the upper mantle?

a mantle is something between the crust


The crust and uppermost mantle make up the rigid outer layer of Earth what is it called?

Together the crust and upper mantle make the lithosphere.


Earth's crust and its upper mantle is called?

The lithosphere is the crust Moho and upper mantle. It floats on a plasticity zone called the asthenosphere.


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 oceanic lithosphere?

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