essay on lithosphere
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The planet Earth comprises several layers. Starting from the Earth’s surface, there are four main layers; namely, the crust, the mantle, the outer core and the inner core. The pressure and temperature increases tremendously from the outer layers to the inner layers. Let’s take a look at each of them individually.
The lithosphere, Greek for “rocky sphere,” is the outermost shell of the Earth. The term is also used to refer to the outermost rocky shell of other solid planets. It is a relatively thin layer, 50-100 km thick under the oceans, 150 km thick on the continents. The lithosphere is composed of the upper crust, 5 km thick in the oceans and 65 km thick on the continents, and the upper mantle, which makes up the remainder.
The lithosphere, Greek for “rocky sphere,” is the outermost shell of the Earth. The term is also used to refer to the outermost rocky shell of other solid planets. It is a relatively thin layer, 50-100 km thick under the oceans, 150 km thick on the continents. The lithosphere is composed of the upper crust, 5 km thick in the oceans and 65 km thick on the continents, and the upper mantle, which makes up the remainder.
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the uppermost layer of the earth is called lithosphere it contains many rocks and minerals and it includes the continent and the ocean basins It contains many landforms such as plains, pleatues , mountains
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