Earth's interior is made up of a series of layers ... The layers can also be categorized into the rigid outer lithosphere (which includes the crust and top portion of the mantle and makes up ...

Seismology studies the Earth’s interior by analyzing how seismic ... It basically states that Earth’s outer shell, or lithosphere, is divided into large, rigid plates that float and move ...

The processes that form continental crust from the denser basaltic rocks of the upper mantle may make the lower lithosphere denser ... that occurs throughout Earth's crust, they argue.

They hope to use it to find out where plate material that has sunken into the Earth's interior is located ... the layer between Earth’s core and outermost, rigid layer the lithosphere, or measure ...

Nor can anyone drill deep enough to take rock samples from the mantle, the layer between the Earth's core and outermost, rigid layer, the lithosphere ... into the Earth's interior.

Nor can anyone drill deep enough to take rock samples from the mantle, the layer between Earth’s core and outermost, rigid layer the lithosphere ... into the Earth's interior.