Lithosphere

The outer, rigid shell of the Earth, situated above the asthenosphere and containing the crust, continents and plates. [Atmospheric Change: An Earth System Perspective, T.E. Graedel and Paul J. Crutzen, W.H. Freeman and Co., New York, 1993, p.431.]

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