Assertion: crust | /r/Synonym | the lithosphere
Facets:
value: together
type: MANNER
value: collectively
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The crust and the cold, rigid, top of the upper mantle are collectively known as the lithosphere, and it is of the lithosphere that the tectonic plates are composed.
text: Together the crust and upper mantle are called the lithosphere and they extend about 80 km deep.
text: The crust is part of the lithosphere.
text: The crust is the thinnest of the Earth’s three layers and the top part of the lithosphere.
text: It is the top component of lithosphere: a division of Earth's layers that includes the crust and the upper part of the mantle.
text: Earth's crust and the solid rocky and brittle upper mantle are known as the lithosphere.