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What can the asthenosphere do?

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∙ 14y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The asthenosphere can deform in a ductile manner (i.e. it behaves like a very viscous fluid - imagine very, very, very thick treacle) unlike the overlying lithosphere which behaves as a brittle material and so fractures into separate fragments known as plates.

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