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What are the Asthenosphere and the Lithosphere?


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Ann,

You can find these words in a dictionary. The lithosphere is the solid, rocky layer of the Earth, under the soil. The asthenosphere lies below the lithosphere and is rather plastic and deformable, but not liquid like the magma that lies under it.

Dr. Cook


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