what is the thickness of lithosphere and asthenosphere in continental continental
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Continental lithosphere is thicker (about 150 km). It consists ofabout 50 km of crust and 100 km or more of uppermost mantle. Oceanic lithosphere consists mainly of mafic crust and ultramafic mantle and is denser than continental lithosphere, for which the mantle is associated with crust made of felsic rocks
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Continental lithosphere have range in the thickness 40km to perhaps 280km ; upper ~30 to 50 km of typical continental crust .
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