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 subdivided into the subcontinental lithospheric mantle associated with the continental lithosphere[1] and oceanic lithospheric mantle, associated with the oceanic lithosphere.[2]

References

  1. ^ Pearson, D. G.; Nowell, G. M. (16 September 2002). Davies, J. H.; Brodholt, J. P.; Wood, B. J. (eds.). "The Continental Lithospheric Mantle: Characteristics and Significance as a mantle Reservoir". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 360 (1800). The Royal Society: 2383. Bibcode:2002RSPTA.360.2383P. doi:10.1098/rsta.2002.1074. ISSN 1364-503X. JSTOR 3558903. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  2. ^ Yuan, Chao; Sun, Min; Xu, Yigang; Zhao, Guochun; Xiao, Wenjiao; Long, Xiaoping; Yin, Jiyuan (15 June 2011). "Oceanic lithospheric mantle beneath the continental crust of the Chinese Altai". Journal of the Geological Society. 168. Geological Society of London: 995-1000. doi:10.1144/0016-76492010-058. ISSN 0016-7649. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
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