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Lithosphere

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geospherenounThe solid body of the Earth.

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geospherenounThe solid body of the Earth.
subcrustal(geology) Underneath the crust (of the Earth).
subcontinentalnounA person from the Indian Subcontinent; a South Asian.
subductedverb(transitive) To push under or below.
subductingnoun(geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
crustnounThe external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
asthenospherenoun(geology) A portion of the Earth's upper mantle, below the lithosphere.
pedospherenounThe outermost layer or "skin" of the Earth, subject to soil formation processes.
continental crustnoun(geology) The layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the geological continents.
aesthenospherenounAlternative spelling of asthenosphere. [(geology) A portion of the Earth's upper mantle, below the lithosphere.]
pyrospherenoun(geology, dated) The zone of igneous activity and lava formation, situated between the lithosphere and barysphere.
stratospherenoun(meteorology) The region of the uppermost atmosphere where the temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation by ozone.
terranoun(literary) Earth, soil, land, or ground as a physical surface.
pedolithnoun(geology) A surface formation that has undergone one or more pedogenic processes; soil.
terrenenoun(poetic) The Earth's surface; the earth; the ground.
plutonismnounThe old geological theory that the rocks forming the Earth were formed in fire by volcanic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion, then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again.
lithicnoun(anthropology) A stone tool or projectile.
stagenounA phase.
laurasianoun(geology) A supercontinent which included most of the landmasses making up today's continents of the Northern Hemisphere.
planet earthnounEarth; the third planet in the Solar System

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