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What is the soft layer of rock in the mantle?
The soft layer of rock in the mantle is called the asthenosphere. It is located beneath the lithosphere and consists of partially molten rock that allows for the movement of tectonic plates.
What is the soft layer of rock in the earths mantle?
The soft layer of rock in the Earth's mantle is called the asthenoshere. The asthenoshere is a solid but able to flow slowly.
Soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats?
The soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats is called the asthenosphere. It is a partially molten layer that allows for the movement of tectonic plates due to its weak and ductile properties. The lithosphere, which is the rigid outer layer of the Earth, sits on top of the asthenosphere and moves due to the convection currents in the mantle beneath it.
WHY does the mantle of the earth move like soft plastic?
No. It is a layer of rock. The very uppermost layer of the mantle is attached to the crust. The layer directly below it is very plastic-like, yet still considered rock. With increasing depth, the rock of the mantle becomes more and more rigid from increasing lithostatic pressure. The next layer after the mantle is the outer core, which is composed of iron and nickel in a liquid state. Finally, the inner core, solid, an alloy of iron and nickel.
What is a layer of slowly flowing rock in a mantle?
A layer of slowly flowing rock in the mantle is called the asthenosphere. It is located beneath the lithosphere and is composed of partially molten rock that allows for the movement of tectonic plates.
What is the soft layer of rock in the mantle?
The soft layer of rock in the mantle is called the asthenosphere. It is located beneath the lithosphere and consists of partially molten rock that allows for the movement of tectonic plates.
What is the soft layer of rock in the earths mantle?
The soft layer of rock in the Earth's mantle is called the asthenoshere. The asthenoshere is a solid but able to flow slowly.
What is the the relatively soft layer of the upper mantle called?
The relatively soft layer of the upper mantle is called the asthenosphere
What layer of earth is hot rock?
The mantle is the hot rock.
The soft layer of the mantle is called the?
asthenosphere
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.
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
Is the earth mantle a layer of hot rock?
Not exactly--the mantle is comprised of semisolid rock, or magma.
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 hot layer of rock and magma?
Mantle
What is the soft layer of the mantle where tectonic plates move?
asthenosphere
