LITHOSPHERE in a Sentence

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The lithosphere is the more or less stable crust of the earth, which may have been, to begin with, about fifty miles in thickness.

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 Meanings and Examples of LITHOSPHERE
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lithosphere
 n.  solid part of the earth consisting of the crust
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1  The lithosphere is the more or less stable crust of the earth, which may have been, to begin with, about fifty miles in thickness.
2  Plate tectonics is a theory of geology that has been developed to explain the observed evidence for large scale motions of the Earth's lithosphere.