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The upper mantle is called the asthenosphere.

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What is a layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust?

Lithosphere


What is the rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust?

Lithosphere


What is between the mantle and the lithosphere of the earth?

Actually, the uppermost mantle is part of the lithosphere. The lithosphere consists of the crust and attached uppermost rigid mantle.


What layer of earth is made up of crust and mantle?

The lithosphere is composed of the crust and hard uppermost attached mantle.


What is a rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and crust?

The rigid layer that is the upper mantle and crust is called the lithosphere.


Which earth layer is found under the crust?

35 - 60 Kms would be the uppermost mantle, which along with the crust forms the hard, brittle lithosphere. The Mantle is a semi-molten layer.


Solid layer just below the lithosphere?

The lithosphere is the physical layer of the Earth that contains the crust and the brittle uppermost mantle.


Which layer includes crust and upper mantle?

The layer that includes the crust and upper mantle is the lithosphere. The lithosphere is the rigid outer layer of the Earth that is broken into tectonic plates. It includes the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle.


If you dig through the outermost layer of the earth where are you?

The outermost physical layer is the lithosphere (the crust plus the attached uppermost mantle).


The rigid layer of earth that includes the entire crust and the uppermost part of the mantle is called the?

lithosphere


What is the uppermost layer?

The uppermost layer of the Earth's surface is called the crust. It is composed of solid rock and is broken up into large tectonic plates that float on the semi-fluid mantle layer beneath them.


Which layer inside the earth includes the upper most portions of the mantel and the crust?

The lithosphere includes the uppermost part of the mantle and it also includes all of the crust.