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Explain what differentiates the Earth’s crust and lithosphere.

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Earth’s crust is distinguished from the lithosphere because the crust refers to a compositional later and the lithosphere is a mechanical layer, the solid layer near the surface of the Earth. The crust is mostly composed of alumino-silicate minerals while the lithosphere includes some of the solid regions of the upper mantle which is mostly ferro-magnesium silicates.

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The curst is the

thin layer of distinctive chemicals composition overlying the ultramafic upper mantle. The lithosphere is rigid outer layer of the earth required by plate tectonic theory.

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