The area around the court facility (South Regional Hollywood Courthouse) has some nice circular and semi-circular streets. Probably confuses some residents, and especially tourists. But it's still pretty.
It is the rigid outermost shell of a rocky planet. Here on Earth the lithosphere contains the crust and upper mantle. The Earth has two types of lithosphere: oceanic and continental. The lithosphere is broken up into tectonic plates. Oceanic lithosphere consists mainly of mafic(rich in magnesium and iron) crust and ultramafic(over 90% mafic) mantle and is denser than continental lithosphere. It thickens as it ages and moves away from the mid-ocean ridge.
Answers. 1  Tectonic plates = lithosphere, and the lithosphere = brittle crust and the uppermost brittle mantle. The confusion arises because there are Seismologists and Geochemists. Lithosphere and Asthenosphere refer to changes in the mechanical properties of the Earth (seismology).