| 41. | These sectors were not thinned by rifting and are characterized by normal continental lithosphere.
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| 42. | The timing of the thrust deformation is opposite that of the relaxing of the lithosphere.
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| 43. | Collisions between tectonic plates and island arcs lead to loading and flexure of the lithosphere.
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| 44. | The lithosphere is only 30 km and there is a low seismic velocity asthenosphere below.
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| 45. | As delamination continues, more asthenosphere rises to replace the lower lithosphere as it sinks.
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| 46. | Negative buoyancy of the lower lithosphere drives delamination in both environments of collision and extension.
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| 47. | The thinned Ethiopian lithosphere could have resulted in ponding from mantle plume and subsequent uplift.
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| 48. | Various kinds of stresses are considered to be responsible for the deformation of the lithosphere.
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| 49. | During periods of inactivity, the lithosphere cools conductively and thickens to over 300 km.
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| 50. | The weight of the redistributed surface mass loaded the lithosphere, caused it to faults below.
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