Lithosphere

Lithosphere That part of the earth which is composed predominantly of rocks (either coherent or incoherent, and including the disintegrated rock materials known as soils and subsoils), together with everything in this rocky crust.

Lithosphere: The solid portion of planet Earth, or landcover. Longwave radiation: Radiant energy characterized by wavelengths primarily between 4 and 100 *m with a maximum near 10 *m. Also known as Terrestial radiation.

Lithosphere In hydrologic terms, that part of the earth which is composed predominantly of rocks (either coherent or incoherent, and including the disintegrated rock materials known as soils and subsoils), together with everything in this rocky crust.

lithosphere: the outer solid portion of the planet earth, made up of the earth's crust and upper mantle. All the rock on earth.

Lithosphere - Rigid outer layer of Earth that includes the crust and uppermost part of the mantle.

LITHOSPHERE - Portion of the earth pertaining to its solid makeup, such as the earth's crust. LLJ - Low Level Jet. A strong wind aloft but confined to the lower levels of the atmosphere.

LITHOSPHERE The solid, outer portion of the earth's crust coupled to the rigid upper mantle. Part of the geosphere. LONGITUDE ...

When the lithosphere is stretched, perhaps due to slab-pull, the lithosphere is thinned and hot asthenosphere rises into the space that is created. This causes heating of the overlying crust and mantle and thermal expansion of these materials.

External processes, such as solar-irradiance variations, variations of the Earth's orbital parameters (eccentricity, precession, and inclination), lithosphere motions, and volcanic activity, are factors in climatic variation.

GEOSPHERE Considered the solid portions of the earth, including the hydrosphere and the lithosphere, as opposed to the atmosphere, which lies above it. At their conjunction is the biosphere.

In the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the earth, water is found as a gas, liquid, and solid. Water falls from the clouds as rain, hail, sleet, graupel, snow, etc.

Lithosphere The outer, solid portion of the earth; the crust of the earth. Livingstone sphere An clay atmometer consisting of a hollow ceramic sphere through which evaporation occurs.

Cryosphere One of the Earth's spheres of irregular form existing in the zone of interaction of the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere, distinguished by negative or zero temperature and the presence of water in the solid or super-cooled state.

climate system"The system, consisting of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere, determining the earth's climate as the result of mutual interactions and responses to external influences (forcing).

The system consisting of the atmosphere (gases), hydrosphere (water), lithosphere (solid rocky part of the Earth), and biosphere (living) that determine the EarthÕs climate. Climate Variability(6) ...

Biogeochemical Cycle: The chemical interactionsand transport within and among the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere (rocks).

Aeration ZoneA portion of the lithosphere in which the functional interstices of permeable rock or earth are not filled with water under hydrostatic pressure.

See also: Temperature, Earth, Atmosphere, Water, Pressure