If uniformly distributed, the hydrosphere would cover the lithosphere to the depth of about two miles, instead of being collected in basins as it now is.
Toward the close of this period came the adjustments which brought the lithosphere to protrude through the hydrosphere in shield-like continents whose distribution, as shown by the rocks of this period, is of great significance.
At the sea level the weight of air upon each square inch of surface is about fifteen pounds, whereas upon the floor of the hydrosphere in the more profound deeps the load upon the square inch must be measured in tons.
Before the earliest of these great changes, the earth appears to have approximated in its figure somewhat closely to the ideal spheroid, for it was everywhere enveloped in the hydrosphere as a universal ocean.
It is easy to think of the atmosphere and the hydrosphere as each sustaining at any point the load of the superincumbent material.
Though apparently not continuous, if we take into account the zone of underground water upon the continents, the hydrosphere may properly be considered as a continuous film about the lithosphere.
The present outer envelope of air may be considered to be the surviving relic of this condition, after all the other constituents have been incorporated into the hydrosphere and lithosphere.
But certain rearrangements of the hydrosphereon the surface of the globe may, from time to time, cause a shifting of the centre of gravity, which will affect the level of the ocean.
It is, therefore, regarded as a third mobile envelope comparable with the hydrosphere and atmosphere.
The solid earth as distinguished from its fluid envelopes, the hydrosphere and atmosphere.
Its atmosphere is not air as we know air; its hydrosphere does not resemble water.
Half of that atmosphere and most of that hydrosphere are one chemical, a substance of very low heat of vaporization and having a boiling point of about seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit.
These agents perform their function mainly upon the portion of the lithosphere which projects through the hydrosphere to form land, and the land is the main area of denudation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hydrosphere" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: deep; drink; head; hydrosphere; main; rain; sea; steam; tide; water
