How to Use lithosphere in a Sentence

lithosphere

noun

• The lithosphere, in other words, is the layer of the planet that makes up the tectonic plates.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2017
• The lithosphere is unable to move much, but the water is pulled by the gravity and a bulge is created.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 3 June 2019
• The larger the slab of lithosphere sinking at a subduction zone, the faster the plate moves, and the stronger the seismic activity. Plates meet.
  — National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• The Earth's lithosphere (formed by the crust and the upper part of the mantle) is broken up into a number of tectonic plates.
  — Lucia Perez Diaz, CNN, 5 Apr. 2018
• Here’s how two plates split apart: The lithosphere, which is broken up into tectonic plates, is made of the Earth’s crust and the upper part of the mantle.
  — Laura Geggel, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2018
• Such a thick lithosphere, Khan says, could be why Mars lacks plate tectonics today.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 22 July 2021
• That’s all thanks to the lithosphere, a solid layer of crust and part of the upper mantle that’s broken into more than a dozen slabs, or plates, of varying sizes.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
• The Siberian lithosphere was loaded with chlorine, bromine, and iodine.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2018
• This latest study examines what was lying below the Siberian Flood Basalts, rock between the crust and the mantle known as the lithosphere.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2018
• The lithosphere is above another layer of mantle called the asthenopshere, where the rock is at just the right pressure and temperature to flow over time and help move the plates.
  — Erik Klemetti, WIRED, 13 July 2010
• There are four main reservoirs of oxygen on Earth: the terrestrial biosphere (green), marine biosphere (blue), lithosphere (Earth’s crust, brown), and atmosphere (grey).
  — The Conversation, oregonlive.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• But the puzzle pieces of the lithosphere are always in motion, slamming against one another, grinding past or getting shoved under another slab.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
• Broadley's team was able to show that after the thousands of years of continual explosion, the Siberian lithosphere seemed to have exhausted itself of its deadly chemicals.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2018
• Cold, dense oceanic lithosphere sinks below an adjacent, lighter plate, plunging into the hot asthenosphere.
  — National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• The climate is basically a giant planet-sized machine with lots of moving parts—the atmosphere, the lithosphere, the cryosphere, the biosphere—and the interactions between those moving parts may be quite sensitive.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 13 June 2018
• Continental rifting requires the existence of extensional forces great enough to break the lithosphere.
  — Lucia Perez Diaz, CNN, 5 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024