- Lithosphere is one of the 4 major spheres.
- It is the outer part of the Earth.
- It is made up of the crust and upper mantle of Earth.
- It is solid in nature.
- It is about 60 miles deep.
- It is about 55 km deep below the ocean.
- Under continents, it is about km miles thick.
- It has the asthenosphere below and the atmosphere above.
- Lithosphere is of 3 types.
- They are the oceanic lithosphere, or oceanic crust, and the continental lithosphere, or continental crust.
