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What section of the earth is composed of the crust and a part of the upper mantle?

The Lithosphere


What is the the part of the mantle below the lithosphere?

Upper Mantle


What is the description off the lithosphere?

The lithosphere is the solid outer section of Earth, which includes Earth's crust, and the underlying cool, dense, and rigid upper part of the mantle.


What is the crust and the upper mantle are called?

The crust and uppermost hard rocky mantle, together, is known as the lithosphere, which is above the plastic-like upper mantle area known as the asthenosphere.


What is called the crust And the upper mantle called?

lithosphere


What is the oceanic lithosphere?

The lithosphere is composed of crust and hard upper mantle. The oceanic lithosphere would be hard upper mantle and basaltic oceanic crust.


What is oceanic lithosphere?

The lithosphere is composed of crust and hard upper mantle. The oceanic lithosphere would be hard upper mantle and basaltic oceanic crust.


Is the upper mantle part of the lithosphere or asthenosphere?

The The crust and the uppermost layer of the mantle form the lithosphere. The asthenosphere, which is still in the upper mantle, is the next layer down.


Which layer of earth contains both the crust and upper mantle?

The layer of the Earth that contains both the crust and the upper mantle is called the lithosphere. The lithosphere is a rigid outer shell that is broken into tectonic plates that float on the semi-fluid asthenosphere below.


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.


How far away is the lithosphere?

You're standing on it. The lithosphere is the crust and upper mantle of the earth.


What is the term for the cool outer layer of the earth made up of the crust and the upper part of the mantle?

Lithosphere