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What is a lithosphere?

What is a lithosphere? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (geology) The rigid, mechanically strong, outer layer of the Earth; divided into twelve major plates.
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Scientists believe that below the lithosphere is a relatively narrow, mobile zone in the mantle called the asthenosphere.
After new oceanic crust forms, the lithosphere cools and thickens as it moves away from the ocean ridge.
As you pull the lithosphere apart, as it separates, decompression occurs in the earth's mantle underneath the spreading centre.
Slow and highly attenuating lithosphere exists beneath this portion of the Anatolian plate and geometry of the Benioff zones.
In plate tectonics, a transform fault is a strike-slip fault extending throughout the lithosphere and joining any two other plate margins.
Across the ridge, the asymmetric flow pattern in the asthenosphere will cause differential drag at the base of the lithosphere.

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