materials in the lithosphere

Is the surface layer of the solid Earth, characterized by its rigidity. Is formed by the earth's crust and the contiguous zone, the outer of the residual mantle, and "fleet" on the asthenosphere, a layer "soft" which is part of the upper mantle. Is the area where it occurs in interaction with asthenosphere, plate tectonics.
The lithosphere is fragmented into a series of lithospheric or tectonic plates, whose edges are endogenous geological phenomena, such as magmatism (including volcanism), the seismicity or orogenesis. The plates can be mixed or ocean, covered in part by continental crust