🔄 Synonyms of "Lithosphere"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| geospherenoun | The solid body of the Earth. |
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| Word | Definition |
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| geospherenoun | The solid body of the Earth. |
| subcrustal | (geology) Underneath the crust (of the Earth). |
| subcontinentalnoun | A 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. |
| crustnoun | The 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. |
| pedospherenoun | The 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. |
| aesthenospherenoun | Alternative 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. |
| plutonismnoun | The 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. |
| stagenoun | A phase. |
| laurasianoun | (geology) A supercontinent which included most of the landmasses making up today's continents of the Northern Hemisphere. |
| planet earthnoun | Earth; the third planet in the Solar System |
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