1. Therefore, these Basalts originated from partial melting of metasomatized asthenospheric (versus lithospheric) mantle

2. State Seismclogical Bureau . Lithospheric Dynamics Atlas of China ( in Chinese ) . Beijing: China Cartographic Pressing House, 19

3. For example, while heating of the lithosphere may account for uplift, subsidence may result from lithospheric cooling.

4. For example, while heating of the lithosphere may account for uplift(sentence dictionary), subsidence may result from lithospheric cooling.

5. Boudinage is common and can occur at any scale, from microscopic to lithospheric, and can be found in all terranes.

6. Lithospheric plates are exerted by a fluid pressure, since they immediately overlie the asthenosphere . We define this fluid pressure as Asthenospheric Static Push (ASP).

7. 29 Lithospheric plates are exerted by a fluid pressure, since they immediately overlie the asthenosphere . We define this fluid pressure as Asthenospheric Static Push (ASP).

8. The parental magma for pyroxenite xenoliths could be derived from the partial melting of the asthenosphere with continental crust material involvement and of the upper lithospheric mantle.

9. Cratons have thick lithospheric roots that extend down to at least 150–200 km, and kimberlite generation in the mantle is probably associated with the physical barrier to mantle upwelling provided by these deep continental roots

10. The other component, which differs from those involved in other domains of Cenozoic volcanism in Europe and adjacent areas, may be located in the lithospheric mantle underlying NE Spain, which was metasomatized during late Variscan to early Alpine deformation.

11. The Tripoli-Tibesti zone was one of uplift and strongly tensional tectonics in the late Mesozoic and early Cainozoic, and at this time may have been a line of potential lithospheric rifting, but a period of quiescence followed and resurgence of activity in the late Cainozoic produced weaker tensional structures and more strongly alkaline basic