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Earths lower mantle lies just below what?

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The asthenosphere is the highly viscous, mechanically weak and ductilely deforming region of the upper mantle of the Earth. It lies below the lithosphere, at depths between approximately 80 and 200 km below the surface.
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It lies just below the asthenosphere
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