Assertion: asthenosphere | /r/HasProperty | weak
Facets:
value: mechanically
type: MANNER
value: in the sense
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: At depths below the thickness of the lithosphere, earthquakes are no longer generated by thrusting at the interface of the two plates, because the asthenosphere is weak and cannot support the stresses necessary for faulting.
text: Asthenosphere (weak sphere)
text: Lithosphere is hard, while asthenosphere is weak.
text: The asthenosphere is weak in the sense that it is not rigid and brittle like the rocky plates of the lithosphere but behaves somewhat like a liquid: yielding, like putty or toffee, if not necessarily molten.
text: The asthenosphere is the region of the upper earth considered to be mechanically weak.
text: Lithosphere is hard, while asthenosphere is weak.