1, Continental lithosphere stands higher than oceanic lithosphere because continental crust is both of greater thickness and lower density than oceanic crust.

2, Where oceanic lithosphere is subducted beneath another oceanic part of a plate the associated volcanic activity and produce an intra-oceanic island arc.

3, Subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a plate carrying continental crust gives rise to a continental-margin orogen.

4, For example, while heating of the lithosphere may account for uplift, subsidence may result from lithospheric cooling.

5, Such mountain belts develop when the oceanic lithosphere originally lying between two continents is eventually consumed.

6, In other words the lithosphere experiences flexure, just as a springboard does when a diver walks along it.

7, To attain hydrostatic equilibrium the position of the lithosphere adjusts vertically in accordance with its density and thickness.

8, This occurs because rifting of the lithosphere allows hot mantle rock to move towards the surface.

9, This is because thick lithosphere will tend to be more resistant to the effects of heat conduction and penetrative magmatism.

10, Oceanic lithosphere has a mean density rather close to that of the immediately underlying asthenosphere.

11, One reason is that the lithosphere is not divided into small discrete blocks able to move freely up and down with respect to each other.

12, Convergent boundaries between oceanic lithosphere are marked by an oceanic trench, a volcanic island arc and a Wadati-Benioff zone.

13, Each of these areas of continental lithosphere are thought to have overridden regions of hot asthenosphere associated with former mid-oceanic spreading ridges.

14, Cool, thick, old oceanic lithosphere is gravitationally unstable as it is generally denser than the asthenosphere over which it lies.

15, Perhaps more significant is the thickening of oceanic lithosphere as it moves away from mid-oceanic ridges.

16, But if the lithosphere along the margin has sufficient rigidity the resulting imbalance in load will be accommodated through flexural isostasy.

17, The heavy oceanic lithosphere descends into the mantle, beneath the lighter continental lithosphere.

18, Oceanic lithosphere, however,[http:///lithosphere.html] is young and effectively of uniform age relative to continental lithosphere.

19, The lithosphere is broken into about a dozen large rigid plates, each plate moving as a distinct unit.

20, Warming occurs so slowly that the descending lithosphere retains its high density characteristics for a very long time.

21, The hydrosphere, atmosphere, pedosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and energy circle in an ecosystem are also in a dynamic balance.

22, Back-arc spreading may be initiated within the volcanic arc because the high heat flux from below weakens the lithosphere.

23, The sequence of continental-margin orogen development begins with the subduction of oceanic lithosphere at, or close to, a continental margin.

24, The time scale over which uplift takes place depends upon the way in which heat is transferred through the lithosphere.

25, The tremendous weight of the ice sheet loaded and depressed that part of the lithosphere.

26, In his original model McKenzie assumed, for ease of calculation, that the lithosphere is stretched instantaneously.

27, A second reason for isostatic anomalies is that the lithosphere is not capable of adjusting instantaneously to a change in load.

28, Other evidence supports the idea of a lack of major deformation within plates, at least over plates composed of oceanic lithosphere.

29, Panxi Rift with the dome-shaped volcano pattern has undergone three evolutionary processes: the lithosphere dome by mantle bulge, the continental crust dome and the subvolcano-dome.

30, According to the previous studies, the uplifting of the asthenosphere could be correlated with lithosphere thinning resulted from an E-W extension.

31, The Earth's lithosphere is formed of a rather small number of major plates.

32, Geological characteristics at their locations show continuous or pulsive westward slipping of lithosphere convection cell.

33, Netlike plastic flow in the lower lithosphere, as viscoplastic flow involving plastic flow network, controls tectonic deformation and dynamic processes within the continental plate.

34, Sedimentary basin forming dynamics system is the macroevolution and correlation of the sedimentary basin, the mantle, the asthenosphere, the lithosphere, and Moho discontinuity.

35, The use of plasticized rosin as an analog material of the ductile lower lithosphere provides an effective approach to modelling intraplate plastic flow network and multi layer tectonic deformation.

36, It is the result of lithosphere gravity adjust and stretch function after Indo-chinese epoch impinging orogen in geotectonic events.

37, Rupture zone controls the North-South differences of cenozoic diastrophism and present lithosphere movement of Fujian Province.

38, The earth is a multi-layered rotating system, which is mainly made up of aerosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, mantle, outer core and inner core.

39, The generation of geochemical boundaries was tightly related to inclined combination of plates, as well as craton boundaries resulted in adjustment of lithosphere structure after plate collision.

40, The rudimental guide of the plate-tectonic theory landing on continent is the archipelagic arc-basin system between the oceanic lithosphere and continental lithosphere.

41, Anisotropy of the flexural response of the lithosphere in the Canadian Shield.

42, Below the lithosphere is the rheosphere comprising partly fused peridotite.

43, It is suggested that the pluton formed in lithosphere extension environment.

44, The hydrosphere and the lithosphere together form the Earth's surface.

45, The orogenic types were controlled by the relative motion mechanism between lithosphere and asthenosphere.

46, Notice first that there could be a substantial difference between lithosphere thickness and plate thickness.

47, These dissolved materials thus pass from the lithosphere to the hydrosphere.

48, In the regional scale, passive source seismic (natural earthquake) research achievements sketch the deep tectonic background reached to the basement of the lithosphere.

49, Scientists call this layer of crust and upper mantle the lithosphere.

50, Base on theory of lithosphere elastic flexure isostatic compensation, the spheric harmonic series expressions of topography-isostasy compensation gravity and geoid are established.

51, They slide on a more yielding layer at the base of lithosphere.

52, According to the stereographic cross model, the second type of migration reflects the shear-creep fault movement beneath the lithosphere.

53, The high geotherm the upper mantle diapir and the corresponding lithosphere thinning regions.

54, The altiplano which you had been to years ago was just sleeping under the lithosphere.

55, Basinal extension and subduction was related to activity of mantle plume, formation and evolution of mantle plume resulted in geothermal decreasing of lithosphere in the basin.

56, The lithosphere is the soil mantle that wraps the core of the earth.

57, In Mesozoic, the most important interaction occurred between the crust and the mantle, whereas in the older and Cenozoic it did between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere .

58, Earthquakes along Benioff zones are distributed in the descending lithosphere slabs.

59, The theory of plate tectonics describes the motions of the lithosphere.

60, The differential movement of lithosphere and asthenosphere causes the Neozoic deformation of Tianshan.

61, It didn't calm down until the lithosphere came to cool down and high temperature lowered.

62, Maginal orogeny was formed on this condition with same relative motion trend between lithosphere and asthenosphere.

63, Large—scale seismic belts andnetworks in the crustal seismogenic layer is a response to plastic—flow network in the lower lithosphere.

64, The lithosphere is divided into a few dozen plates of various sizes and shapes.

65, The tectonic stress the Earth are mainly on the upper lithosphere.

66, The overall environment quality of lithosphere is good and pedosphere is not polluted.

67, As the plates spread apart, the lithosphere, or crust, is moved aside like a lid,[] allowing molten rock from the liquid asthenosphere to seep through.

68, Geological characteristics at their locations show continuous or pulsive westward slipping of lithosphere with respect to convection cell.

69, Super long period magnetotelluric detection is an effective method of studying electric conductivity of continental lithosphere.

70, Analysis of S wave envelope broadening can be a powerful tool for quantitative study of random velocity inhomogeneity in the lithosphere.

71, Some times in the process there was reworking of diapir of mantle-sourced magma on the crust or lithosphere.

72, Taizhong-Jinjiang transverse structure belt is an important Faulted Zone, which controls the North-South differences of cenozoic diastrophism and current lithosphere movement of Fujian province.