(a) What is the difference between the earths crust and its lithosphere? (b) How is it possible...

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(a) What is the difference between the earth’s crust and its lithosphere? 

(b) How is it possible for a plastic asthenosphere to occur between a rigid lithosphere and a rigid mantle? 

(c) If the asthenosphere is plastic, how can transverse seismic waves travel through it?

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The Physical Universe

ISBN: 978-0077862619

16th edition

Authors: Konrad B Krauskopf, Arthur Beiser

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