What is "lithospheric"

Usage examples of "lithospheric".

Then, as they moved down one shallow step at a time, they effectively de­scended beneath the lithospheric crust and into the depths of the planet.

It behaves more like a liquid than the more rigid lithospheric mantle that generally stays coupled to the continent.

After a moment the ascending diapir pinched off from be­low and its matter formed a reservoir at the deepest part of Clyde's lithospheric mantle.

By the time they returned to the control console, the drill-rigs had passed the Moho and entered the lithospheric mantle.

You'll find the complete up-to-the-nanosec data on the rigidity of the superimposed lithospheric mantle in your CE-helmet banks, with pull-up graphics galore to assist continuous mental monitoring.

A thin stemlike excrescence, the queue of scarlet molten matter slowly pushing its way toward the surface in an expanding lithospheric fissure, protruded from the top of the reservoir some distance away.

The ocean went deep into the land and did not retreat completely, creating lakes the size of seas, because the lithospheric plate above Quinta's mantle had buckled and water filled the new depressions formed on the surface.

She was a quadpoint, moving through the warm deep layers of lithospheric rock.

We’d never have enough time to finish the chaotic Hadley-cell atmospheric modeling, to say nothing of the lithospheric response simulations.