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The soils, sediments, and rock layers of the Earth's crust, both continental and beneath the ocean floors.
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The solid mass (lithosphere) of the Earth as distinct from the atmosphere and hydrosphere or all three of these layers combined.
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the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle
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the rocks, mountains, lithospheric plates, and other physical features of Earth, except for water
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The nonliving parts of the Earth: the lithosphere, the atmosphere, the cryosphere, and the hydrosphere.
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refers to the physical elements of the Earth's surface, crust and interior.
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The solid earth or land as compared to the atmosphere or hydrosphere.
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A broad term that loosely refers to an earth spherical shell or layer.
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The "solid" portion of the earth, including water masses; the lithosphere plus the hydrosphere.
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Earth's solid stuff, typically studied by geologists (p.109-113).
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Considered the solid portions of the earth, including the hydrosphere and the lithosphere, as opposed to the atmosphere, which lies above it. At their conjunction is the biosphere.
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Geosphere is a term denoting the solid part of Earth which is made mostly of rock and regolith. Skinner, B: "The Dynamic Earth.", page 21.
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