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What is the crust and brittle upper mantle called?
Earth's crust and brittle upper mantle is called the lithosphere.
The lithosphere includes all of the?
The lithosphere consists of the crust and the rigid, uppermost part of the mantle.
What part of the earth behaves like a brittle solid?
The crust and the upper part of the mantle are the solid part of the Earth called the lithosphere.
What earth layers does the lithosphere consist of?
The lithosphere is composed of the crust and uppermost hard, brittle mantle.
Are plates made of Earth's crust and asthenosphere?
Tectonic plates are formed from the lithosphere which is the solid brittle portion of the upper mantle and the crust so tectonic plates are part of both the crust and the upper brittle mantle.
What is the lithosphere of the lithosphere?
The lithosphere is composed of the crust and uppermost hard, brittle mantle.
Is the lithospere located in the crust?
The lithosphere includes the crust and the very top of the mantle. The lithosphere is cool and brittle.
What is the crust and brittle upper mantle called?
Earth's crust and brittle upper mantle is called the lithosphere.
What are facts about the lithosphere?
The lithosphere is made up of the crust and uppermost brittle mantle.
What are facts the lithosphere?
The lithosphere is made up of the crust and uppermost brittle mantle.
Where is the crust and brittle upper mantle form?
The Lithosphere
The lithosphere includes all of the?
The lithosphere consists of the crust and the rigid, uppermost part of the mantle.
What does the the lithosphere consists of?
It consists of the crust and the uppermost brittle mantle.
The crust and the upper mantle are know as the?
The crust and uppermost brittle mantle are referred to as the lithosphere.
The crust and uppermost mantle make up the rigid outer layer of earth called the?
The uppermost mantle and the crust makes the lithosphere.
Is the crust and the mantle brittle or is the crust and lithosphere brittle?
In order to answer this you need to understand the difference between the compositional layers of the earth and the physical layers. The crust and mantle are differing layers of the earth based on chemical composition. The lithosphere is a layer of the earth defined based on it's physical or mechanical properties (how it deforms). The lithosphere is composed of the crust and the portion of the upper mantle which deforms elastically and fails in a brittle manner (fractures can propagate through the material). So in the question where you ask is the crust and lithosphere brittle, the answer is yes as the crust is entirely part of the lithosphere which by definition is brittle. However as described above, a section of the upper mantle is also a brittle solid and so that too is part of the lithosphere. However below this, the mantle behaves as a ductile solid.
What part of the earth behaves like a brittle solid?
The crust and the upper part of the mantle are the solid part of the Earth called the lithosphere.
