The "plastic" region of the upper mantle extending from about 70 km beneath Earth's surface to 250 km is known as the

A) Gutenberg discontinuity.
B) Mohorovi?i? discontinuity.
C) outer core.
D) crust.
E) asthenosphere.


E

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