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What is made of the upper part of the mantle and the crust?
If you are using the term 'upper crust' euphemistically and not to refer to bread or pies, then the upper crust is made of aristocrats. If you mean the upper part of the earth's crust, then it is made of the lightest elements from which the planet is made (silicon, aluminum etc).
What is the crust and brittle upper mantle called?
Earth's crust and brittle upper mantle is called the lithosphere.
Do compression and tension affect the thickness of earth's crust?
Yes, Compression can thicken the earths crust and tension can cause thinning in the earths crust.
Large segments of the crust and upper mantle known as?
Large segments of the crust and upper mantle known as the Lithospheric plates.
How is crust similar to lithosphere?
The Earth's Crust, Lithosphere and Asthenosphere. Crust, the upper layer of the Earth, is not always the same. ... The tectonic plates are made up of Earth's crust and the upper part of the mantle layer underneath. Together the crust and upper mantle are called the lithosphere and they extend about 80 km deep.
Where would the thickness of the earth's crust be about 40 km?
The thickness of the Earh's crust about 40 km will be at the contenintal crust.
What layer of crust averages 25 miles in thickness?
Continental crust.
Six facts about lithosphere?
its approximatley 100 km thick its part of the crust and upper mantle its a flexable rock not a liquid but not a soild its made of rock the lithosphere and asthosphere makes up the mantle includes crust and upper mental
What layers of earth makes up the lithosphere?
Crust and the upper mantle
What is the thickness of an earth layer?
the crust is the thickness of earths layers
What is the average thickness of Earth's crust?
The Earths Crust can be divided between Oceanic Crust and Continental Crust. Oceanic and Continental Crust are quiet different. The thickness of oceanic crust is between 5km and 10km. It is made of mainly basalt, grabbo and diabise. The thickness of continental crust is between 30km and 50km. It is made up of lighter rocks such as granite.
How does the thickness of the Earth's crust?
Inconsistently.
Is The Earth's crust Of Uniform Thickness?
no
This layer of the crust averages 25 miles in thickness?
continetal crust
Which layer of the crust has an average thickness of five miles?
The oceanic crust.
What is the scientific term for the upper crust of the Earth?
The crust is the outermost solid shell of the planet. It is chemically different from the underlying mantle. The scientific name for the crust is the lithosphere. It has an average thickness of 30-35 kilometers in continental areas and 5 kilometers in oceanic areas.
What is the thickness of the earths crust in miles?
The average is 9 miles.The average continental crust thickness is 22 miles thick. The maximum crust thickness is 56 miles underneath the Himalayas, and is 16 miles thick at its thinnest in various places.The average oceanic crust is about 4 miles thick.For the entire Earth then, the average crust thickness is 9 miles.To scale size, the earths crust would be about the thickness of 3 ordinary sheets of paper on a basketball. The thickness of a chicken eggshell would be 16 pieces of paper on a basketball, so the earths crust is 5 times thinner than a typical egg shell. And the crust is only as thick as the egg shell at its maximum thickness underneath Nepal.Sleep tight.
