lithospheres in a sentence
Examples
- The ridge orientations around the patera could provide information on the regional lithosphere.
- Earth's lithosphere is divided into several rigid mantle that drives plate tectonics.
- This vertical stress is supported by the mantle and the flexure of the lithosphere.
- This fresh magma will eventually become new lithosphere.
- The crust and the relatively rigid peridotite below it make up the oceanic lithosphere.
- Sediment fill within the foredeep acts as an additional load on the continental lithosphere.
- Later work pointed to tectonic uplift, caused by reheating within the lower lithosphere.
- Where the thickness of the crust and lithosphere varies, equilibrium must be reached.
- The passive rift model infers that slab pull stretches the lithosphere and thins it.
- The Troodos Ophiolite is exceptional for the completeness of the section of oceanic lithosphere.