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What is the relatively soft layer of rock below the lithosphere?
The softer layer below the lithosphere is the asthenosphere. The asthenosphere begins at a depth of approximately 150 km. It has convection currents that arise from the heating and subsequent rising of material from the lower asthenosphere. These convection currents drive the movement of lithospheric plates at the surface, and are the cause of tectonic activity.
What forms where a flat layer of tough rock lies over a layer of soft rock that erodes easily?
It could form of variety of features, from a mesa to a waterfall.
What is a soft layer of molten rock under the earths surface?
If there were such a thing it would not be soft, it would be liquid, and would be called magma. There really is no completely molten layer of Earth except for the outer core which is composed primarily of liquid iron along with some nickel and other trace elements.
Which earth layer is made up of liquid rock?
No layer is truly made of liquid rock. The mantle is sometimes, inaccurately, said to be liquid rock when it is in fact solid, albeit relatively soft. The outer core is liquid, but it consists of liquid metal, not rock.
What is the function of each of the layer of the earth?
Basically as follows- Crust- The "shell" and barrier that keeps our earth from being a lava planet. Mantle- Soft "Clay-like" rock that is hot and convection currents here cause the movements of the plates in the lithosphere Core- Place where rock is liquit and melted in the outer core, inner core is solid nickel and iron, makes up Earth's magnetic field.
What is the relatively soft layer of rock below the lithosphere?
The softer layer below the lithosphere is the asthenosphere. The asthenosphere begins at a depth of approximately 150 km. It has convection currents that arise from the heating and subsequent rising of material from the lower asthenosphere. These convection currents drive the movement of lithospheric plates at the surface, and are the cause of tectonic activity.
What is the soft layer on the mantle which the lithosphere floats?
asthenosphere
What is the soft layer of the mantle which the lithosphere floats?
asthenosphere
What is the soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats is the?
It Is Known As The Asthenoshere
What Pieces of lithosphere move slowly over this soft layer of mantle?
boundaries and faults
How are waterfalls?
The flowing water falls on the soft rock below, it wears it away and hard rock from the top of the water fall falls on the soft rock, as the hard rock falls from the top, it leaves a dent and the water wears this away, then pushing the waterfall back, wooop woopA waterfall is formed when there is a layer of hard rock and a layer of soft rock. The soft rock is eroded away first, so that the harder rock just hangs over, creating a waterfall.
Pieces of lithosphere move slowly over this soft layer of the mantle?
Pieces of the lithosphere are known as tectonic plates. These plates slide slowly over the upper layer of the mantle known as the asthenosphere.
How waterfalls ar formed?
The flowing water falls on the soft rock below, it wears it away and hard rock from the top of the water fall falls on the soft rock, as the hard rock falls from the top, it leaves a dent and the water wears this away, then pushing the waterfall back, wooop woopA waterfall is formed when there is a layer of hard rock and a layer of soft rock. The soft rock is eroded away first, so that the harder rock just hangs over, creating a waterfall.
What is the soft layer of rock in the mantle?
The asthenoshpere
Soft layer of rock in the mantle?
asthenosphere
What is the pieces of lithosphere move slowly over this soft layer of the mantle?
Those are called TECTONIC PLATES.
Soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats?
As the question uses the word mantle which is a compositional layer of the earth, then the answer is crust.
