The mantle, with a density of up to 3.3 g cm−3, and a thickness of some 2 800 km, lies between the crust and the Earth’s core. The upper layer, immediately below the Moho discontinuity, is rigid, forming the lower lithosphere; the lower layer is the asthenosphere. Zhou et al. (2002) Lithos. 62, 3 see the interaction between continental crust and subcontinental mantle as expressing geodynamic processes deep in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle. See Husson (2006) Geology 34, 9 on upper mantle flow.