GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The lithosphere includes the brittle upper portion of the mantle and the crust, the outermost layers of Earth’s structure. It is bounded by the atmosphere above and the asthenosphere (another part of the upper mantle) below. Although the rocks of the lithosphere are still considered elastic, they are not viscous.

Detailed explanation-2: -The lithosphere is the outermost layer of Earth, composed of the crust and the brittle part of the upper mantle.

Detailed explanation-3: -The 3 main layers are the core, mantle and crust. The mantle is composed of the mesosphere and the asthenosphere and the uppermost part of the mantle. That uppermost part of the mantle is what is combined with the crust to make the lithosphere.

Detailed explanation-4: -In plate tectonics, Earth’s outermost layer, or lithosphere-made up of the crust and upper mantle-is broken into large rocky plates. These plates lie on top of a partially molten layer of rock called the asthenosphere.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mineral Composition The upper mantle is dominantly peridotite, composed primarily of variable proportions of the minerals olivine, clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene, and an aluminous phase. The aluminous phase is plagioclase in the uppermost mantle, then spinel, and then garnet below  100 km.