Use of lithosphere in Sentences. 29 Examples

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lithosphere at the end of sentence


  1. The tremendous weight of the ice sheet loaded and depressed that part of the lithosphere.
  2. The heavy oceanic lithosphere descends into the mantle, beneath the lighter continental lithosphere.
  3. Oceanic lithosphere, however, is young and effectively of uniform age relative to continental lithosphere.
  4. The time scale over which uplift takes place depends upon the way in which heat is transferred through the lithosphere.
  5. Back-arc spreading may be initiated within the volcanic arc because the high heat flux from below weakens the lithosphere.
  6. Other evidence supports the idea of a lack of major deformation within plates, at least over plates composed of oceanic lithosphere.

lithosphere in the middle of sentence


  1. This occurs because rifting of the lithosphere allows hot mantle rock to move towards the surface.
  2. The lithosphere is broken into about a dozen large rigid plates, each plate moving as a distinct unit.
  3. Oceanic lithosphere has a mean density rather close to that of the immediately underlying asthenosphere.
  4. In other words the lithosphere experiences flexure, just as a springboard does when a diver walks along it.
  5. Perhaps more significant is the thickening of oceanic lithosphere as it moves away from mid-oceanic ridges.
  6. In his original model McKenzie assumed, for ease of calculation, that the lithosphere is stretched instantaneously.
  7. For example, while heating of the lithosphere may account for uplift, subsidence may result from lithospheric cooling.
  8. Subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a plate carrying continental crust gives rise to a continental-margin orogen.
  9. Such mountain belts develop when the oceanic lithosphere originally lying between two continents is eventually consumed.
  10. Warming occurs so slowly that the descending lithosphere retains its high density characteristics for a very long time.
  11. This is because thick lithosphere will tend to be more resistant to the effects of heat conduction and penetrative magmatism.
  12. A second reason for isostatic anomalies is that the lithosphere is not capable of adjusting instantaneously to a change in load.
  13. To attain hydrostatic equilibrium the position of the lithosphere adjusts vertically in accordance with its density and thickness.
  14. The hydrosphere, atmosphere, pedosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and energy circle in an ecosystem are also in a dynamic balance.
  15. Convergent boundaries between oceanic lithosphere are marked by an oceanic trench, a volcanic island arc and a Wadati-Benioff zone.
  16. Cool, thick, old oceanic lithosphere is gravitationally unstable as it is generally denser than the asthenosphere over which it lies.
  17. One reason is that the lithosphere is not divided into small discrete blocks able to move freely up and down with respect to each other.
  18. The sequence of continental-margin orogen development begins with the subduction of oceanic lithosphere at, or close to, a continental margin.
  19. But if the lithosphere along the margin has sufficient rigidity the resulting imbalance in load will be accommodated through flexural isostasy.
  20. Where oceanic lithosphere is subducted beneath another oceanic part of a plate the associated volcanic activity and produce an intra-oceanic island arc.
  21. Continental lithosphere stands higher than oceanic lithosphere because continental crust is both of greater thickness and lower density than oceanic crust.
  22. Each of these areas of continental lithosphere are thought to have overridden regions of hot asthenosphere associated with former mid-oceanic spreading ridges.
  23. Panxi Rift with the dome-shaped volcano pattern has undergone three evolutionary processes: the lithosphere dome by mantle bulge, the continental crust dome and the subvolcano-dome.

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