Earth:Lithospheric mantle
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Earth cutaway from core to crust, the lithosphere comprising the crust and lithospheric mantle (detail not to scale)
The lithospheric mantle is the uppermost solid part of mantle.
the lithospheric mantle is subdvided into the subcontinental lithospheric mantle associated with the continental lithosphere[1] and oceanic lithospheric mantle, associated with the oceanic lithosphere.[2]
References
- ↑ "The Continental Lithospheric Mantle: Characteristics and Significance as a mantle Reservoir". Chemical reservoirs and convection in the Earth's mantle. Papers of a Discussion Meeting organized and edited by J. H. Davies 360 (1800): 2383. 2002. doi:10.1098/rsta.2002.1074. Bibcode: 2002RSPTA.360.2383P.
- ↑ "Oceanic lithospheric mantle beneath the continental crust of the Chinese Altai"
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