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The 54 pages that link to Lithosphere, each with the reason it gives.

• Subduction zoneRelated: The descending plate is a piece of lithosphere, not crust alone.

• PedosphereRelated: Its rocks and sediments provide much of soil’s mineral matter.

• Hotspot volcanismRelated: Its thickness and motion influence where hotspot magma reaches the surface.

• Earth's mantleRelated: The mantle's cool, rigid top joins the crust to form this shell.

• Flood basaltRelated: Variations in lithospheric thickness and composition may shape where and how flood-basalt magma rises.

• Divergent boundaryRelated: Divergence stretches and separates this mechanically rigid shell.

• Himalayan orogenyRelated: The Indian and Eurasian lithospheres transmit forces and deform during convergence.

• Antarctic PlateRelated: The Antarctic Plate consists of lithosphere moving as a coherent unit.

• Foreland basinRelated: Its strength determines how far the orogenic load bends the plate.

• Mantle xenolithRelated: Many xenoliths sample the mantle lithosphere beneath volcanic regions.

• BiosphereRelated: Life occupies portions of this solid realm, from soils to deep rock.

• Post-glacial reboundRelated: The lithosphere bends under ice-sheet weight and rises as that weight disappears.

• Olympus MonsRelated: Mars’s comparatively immobile lithosphere may have let one volcanic center accumulate lava over time.

• Hawaii hotspotRelated: As oceanic lithosphere crosses the hotspot, it cools, thickens, and carries volcanoes away.

• Internal structure of EarthRelated: Mechanical layering combines crust and upper mantle into the plates that move across the surface.

• Oxygen cycleRelated: Rocks and minerals in the lithosphere hold large quantities of chemically bound oxygen.

• Tectonics of VenusRelated: Venus's hot, weak lithosphere resists breaking into plates; Earth's cold one succeeds.

• Geology of VenusRelated: Its strength and mobility influence Venus’s tectonics and volcanic resurfacing.

• Isostatic depressionRelated: Its downward flexure or sinking is the visible expression of depression.