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• Together the crust and upper mantle are called the lithosphere and they extend about 80 km deep.
• The lithosphere is a layer that includes the crust and the upper most portion of the asthenosphere (Figure 2).
• The Crust: The crust or the lithosphere is the outermost layer of the Earth made up of silicate rock materials.
• The lithosphere is the more or less stable crust of the earth, which may have been, to begin with, about fifty miles in thickness.