Crossword-Solution: LITHOSPHERE
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| the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle | 2 answers |
| Earthling | 61 answers |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
GATAE
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with LITHOSPHERE (5)
Considering the earth in a broad way, we may view it as a globe of solid rock,--the lithosphere,--surrounded by two mobile envelopes: the envelope of air,--THE ATMOSPHERE, and the envelope of water,--THE HYDROSPHERE.
The dark, cold abysses of the ocean are far less affected by change than any other portion of the surface of the lithosphere.
Deep- sea deposits are absent from the rocks of the land, and we may therefore infer that the deep sea has never held sway where the continents now are,--that the continents have ever been, as now, the elevated portions of the lithosphere, and that the deep seas of the present have ever been its most depressed portions.
The portions of the lithosphere which have been carried down the farthest have received the waters of the oceans, while those portions which have been carried down the least have emerged as continents.
SOIL AND GEOLOGY Above the metallic core of the planet, the lithosphere consists exclusively of fluorides of the metals.