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Latest revision as of 23:46, 20 November 2013
1) The lithosphere is the rigid outermost shell of a rocky planet. On Earth, it comprises the crust and the portion of the upper mantle that behaves elastically on time scales of thousands of years or greater.
2) The lithosphere is the Earth’s crust.