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 Translation for 'lithosphere' from English to Croatian
NOUN   a lithosphere | lithospheres
SYNO geosphere | lithosphere
geol.
litosfera {f}
lithosphere
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Translation for 'lithosphere' from English to Croatian

lithosphere
litosfera {f}geol.
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Usage Examples English
  • A rift is the result of pulling apart or extension of lithosphere, including the crust, caused by mantle upwelling where hotter asthenosphere magma rises up into the colder lithosphere to stretch and thin it.
  • Due to the instability in a local area, the base of the lithosphere breaks up into descending blobs fed by an enlarging region of thinning lithosphere.
  • When the hot plume arrives at the base of the lithosphere, some of the lighter rock of the lithosphere rapidly melts.
  • Dewey and Bird This mechanism is a form of plate convergence where a thin, hot layer of oceanic lithosphere is obducted over cooler and thicker lithosphere.
  • The lithosphere consists of the outermost light crust plus the uppermost rigid portion of the mantle.

  • For the loading model, the lithosphere is initially stiff, with the basin broad and shallow.
  • This fact reflects the process of lithosphere recycling into the Earth's mantle during subduction.
  • Earth's mantle is divided into two major rheological layers: the rigid lithosphere comprising the uppermost mantle, and the more ductile asthenosphere, separated by the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary.
  • The age of the oceanic crust can be used to estimate the (thermal) thickness of the lithosphere, where young oceanic crust has not had enough time to cool the mantle beneath it, while older oceanic crust has thicker mantle lithosphere beneath it.
  • Gravity anomalies provide clues on other processes taking place deep in the lithosphere.

  • A hypothesis of the development of thick lithosphere is built on these observations.
  • Lithospheric stretching/thinning during rifting results in regional necking of the lithosphere (the elevation of the upper surface decreases while the lower boundary rises).
  • Because of its relatively low density, continental lithosphere that arrives at a subduction zone cannot subduct much further than about [...] before resurfacing.
  • These raised features produce ridge push; gravity pulling down on the lithosphere at the mid-ocean ridge is mostly opposed by the normal force from the underlying rock, but the remainder acts to push the lithosphere down the sloping asthenosphere and away from the ridge.
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