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Which suggests that earth lithosphere floats on the asthenosphere?
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tension or compression or shear or isostasy
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The lithosphere floats on a layer of the earth mantle called?
The asthenosphere.
What floats on earth mantle?
The lithosphere, part crust and part rigid upper mantle, floats on the asthenosphere.
What is the physical layers of the earth?
The outermost layer of the earth is the lithosphere, from the greek "lithos" meaning stone. It includes all of the tectonic plates, and "floats" on the asthenosphere.
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 zone below the lithosphere in the earth?
"What is the zone below the lithosphere in the earth?"Asthenosphere!!!!Mrs. Mckinney's 9th Grade Earth Science Class - 3rd PeriodBCHSOwingsville, KY
What are the pieces of the lithosphere?
Earth's Crust, Lithosphere and Asthenosphere
Pieces of the lithosphere are?
Earth's Crust, Lithosphere and Asthenosphere
On what part of the earth do the crustal plates float?
The Earth's crust, also called the lithosphere, floats on the upper layer of the mantle. This part of the mantle is known as the asthenosphere.
What is the top physical layer of the earth?
The outermost layer of the earth is the lithosphere, from the greek "lithos" meaning stone. It includes all of the tectonic plates, and "floats" on the asthenosphere.
What part of the earth do the crustal plates float?
The Earth's crust, also called the lithosphere, floats on the upper layer of the mantle. This part of the mantle is known as the asthenosphere.
Which part of the asthenosphere and lithosphere are parts of Earths?
The lithosphere and asthenosphere are both entirely part of Earth.
Is it true or false that the asthenosphere floats on the lithosphere?
Because of something called Isostacy-the gravitational equilibrium between lithosphere and asthenosphere, such that plates "float" at an elevation that dependes on the thickness and density. EX. Think floating ice cubes
