The lithospheric mantle is the uppermost solid part of
Earth's mantle
Earth's mantle is a layer of silicate rock between the crust and the outer core. It has a mass of 4.01 × 1024 kg and thus makes up 67% of the mass of Earth. It has a thickness of making up about 84% of Earth's volume. It is predominantly sol ...
.
The lithospheric mantle is subdivided into the
subcontinental lithospheric mantle
The subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) is the uppermost solid part of Earth's mantle associated with the continental lithosphere.
The modern understanding of the Earth's upper mantle is that there are two distinct components - the lithos ...
associated with the
continental lithosphere
A lithosphere () is the rigid, outermost rocky shell of a terrestrial planet or natural satellite. On Earth, it is composed of the crust and the portion of the upper mantle that behaves elastically on time scales of up to thousands of years o ...
and
oceanic lithospheric mantle
Oceanic may refer to:
*Of or relating to the ocean
*Of or relating to Oceania
** Oceanic climate
** Oceanic languages
**Oceanic person or people, also called "Pacific Islander(s)"
Places
* Oceanic, British Columbia, a settlement on Smith Island ...
, associated with the
oceanic lithosphere
A lithosphere () is the rigid, outermost rocky shell of a terrestrial planet or natural satellite. On Earth, it is composed of the crust (geology), crust and the portion of the upper mantle (geology), mantle that behaves elastically on time sca ...
.
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Earth's mantle