Asthenosphere

highly viscous, mechanically weak and ductile region of the Earth's mantle From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Asthenosphere

The asthenosphere is part of earth's mantle. It is about 100 km to 350 km under the surface.[1] It is the lower part of the upper mantle, and behaves as a hot viscous liquid.

Thumb
Earth cutaway

It consists of hot, weak material that can be deformed like silly putty. That means it is capable of gradual flow. It is under the lithosphere.

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.