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- or natural satellite. On Earth, it is composed of the crust and the lithospheric mantle, the topmost portion of the upper mantle that behaves elastically...
- lithospheric mantle is subdivided into the subcontinental lithospheric mantle (****ociated with the continental lithosphere) and oceanic lithospheric mantle...
- In geology, lithospheric flexure (also called regional isostasy) is the process by which the lithosphere (rigid, thin outer layer of the Earth) bends under...
- (about as fast as hair grows). Tectonic lithosphere plates consist of lithospheric mantle overlain by one or two types of crustal material: oceanic crust...
- A lithospheric drip is a geological phenomenon in which a dense and relatively cold m**** of lithosphere sinks into the more fluid upper mantle. The regions...
- The subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) is the uppermost solid part of Earth's mantle ****ociated with the continental lithosphere. The modern understanding...
- the LAB involves differences in composition of the mantle at depth. Lithospheric mantle is ultramafic and has lost most of its volatile constituents,...
- to primary processes of the Iceland plume or secondary processes of lithospheric extension from plate tectonics. Rocks from the North Atlantic Igneous...
- idea that lithospheric heating was occurring during the time of uplift. Heat flow anomalies must be considered in order to justify lithospheric heating...
- cratons, stable blocks of old crust with deep roots in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle, and less stable terranes, which came together to form the African...