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The athenosphere
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What layers of earth makes up the lithosphere?
Crust and the upper mantle
Is the crust a layer of rocks under the plate or is the crust the plates?
The crust is the layer at the surface that forms the upper part of the plates. The plates also include a portion of the upper mantle just beneath the crust. Together, the crust and this upper portion of the mantle form the lithosphere.
Is silica and forms of granite found in upper mantle?
Silica is found in the upper mantle, but not granite. Most of the minerals in the mantle are silicates, meaning they contain silica. Granite is found in the crust, primarily conditnental crust, as it forms from high-silica magma. The upper mantle is composed mostly of a lower-silica rock called peridotite.
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.
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 layer of the earth forms the earths plates?
Tectonic plates are floating on the magma (semi-molten rocks) of the mantle layer. Therefore, they form the crust layer of the Earth.
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.
The crust and the upper mantle are know as the?
The crust and uppermost brittle mantle are referred to as the lithosphere.
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.
What is the meaning of the upper mantle?
a mantle is something between the crust
