The Mohorovičić discontinuity (/ˌmoʊhəˈroʊvɪtʃɪtʃ/ MOH-hə-ROH-vih-chitch; Croatian: [moxorôʋiːtʃitɕ]) – usually called the Moho discontinuity, Moho boundary...
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Andrija Mohorovičić (23 January 1857 – 18 December 1936) was a Croatian geophysicist. He is best known for the eponymous Mohorovičić discontinuity and is...
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Plagioclase (section At the Mohorovičić discontinuity)
weathers relatively rapidly to clay minerals such as smectite. The Mohorovičić discontinuity, which defines the boundary between the Earth's crust and the...
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(sima, for silica-magnesium). It is not as pronounced as the Mohorovičić discontinuity and absent in some continental regions. Up to the middle 20th...
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referred to as the Oldham-Gutenberg discontinuity, or the Wiechert-Gutenberg discontinuity. Lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary Mohorovičić discontinuity...
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crust-mantle boundary occurs as two physically different phenomena. The Mohorovičić discontinuity is a distinct change of seismic wave velocity. This is caused...
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Upper mantle (section Lehmann discontinuity)
seismic waves, which Andrija Mohorovičić first noted in 1909; this boundary is now referred to as the Mohorovičić discontinuity or "Moho." The Moho defines...
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1960s to drill through the Earth's crust to obtain samples of the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or Moho, the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle. The...
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between the crust and mantle is conventionally placed at the Mohorovičić discontinuity, a boundary defined by a contrast in seismic velocity. The temperature...
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Seismic velocity structure (section Discontinuity)
century.In 1909, Andrija Mohorovičić identified a significant boundary within the Earth known as the Mohorovičić discontinuity, which demarcates the transition...
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basaltic magmas are trapped during their rise to the surface at the Mohorovičić discontinuity or within the crust. Entrapment (or 'stalling out') of magmas...
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viscous solid mantle. The crust is separated from the mantle by the Mohorovičić discontinuity. The thickness of the crust varies from about 6 kilometres (3...
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cycle Climate system Cryosphere Geosphere Kola Superdeep Borehole Mohorovičić discontinuity Pedosphere Solid earth Vertical displacement Skinner, B. J.; Porter...
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Core–mantle boundary (section Seismic discontinuity)
(1,796 mi) below Earth's surface. The boundary is observed via the discontinuity in seismic wave velocities at that depth due to the differences between...
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ambitious attempt to drill through the Earth's crust into the Mohorovičić discontinuity, abandoned in 1966 Chikyū, Japan's outreach program to promote...
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which was first noted by Andrija Mohorovičić in 1909; this boundary is now referred to as the Mohorovičić discontinuity or "Moho". The upper mantle is dominantly...
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Digital geologic mapping Geologic map Geologic province Lithosphere Mohorovičić discontinuity Oceanic crust OneGeology Plate tectonics Terrane Fairbridge, Rhodes...
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belonged to Gondwana's northern edge. The maximum depth of the Mohorovicic Discontinuity in the Aquitanian Basin is 36 km, following more or less the path...
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"Mohorovičić" level, originally from Mohorovičić discontinuity named after Croatian seismologist Andrija Mohorovičić. Giant klaxosaurs (hundreds of meters...
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Antarctica's largest known subglacial lake List of deepest mines Mohorovičić discontinuity – Boundary between the Earth's crust and the mantle San Andreas...
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magnetic polarity. Oceans portal Continental crust Lithosphere Mohorovičić discontinuity Plate tectonics Seabed 2030 Seafloor depth versus age Gillis et...
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transitional between typical oceanic and continental profiles and the Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) appears to lie at about 20 kilometres (12 mi) depth. These...
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Command. Retrieved August 27, 2018. "Mohorovicic Discontinuity - The Moho". Geology.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05. Mohorovičić, St. (1934-01-01). "Möglichkeit...
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Seismology UNESCO world heritage site Glarus Thrust Volcanology Mohorovičić discontinuity Harper, Douglas. "tectonic". Online Etymology Dictionary. Geologists...
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MBL is thinner than the crust and the LAB would be above the Mohorovičić discontinuity. The definition of the LAB as a thermal boundary layer (TBL) comes...
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Project, an ambitious project that attempted to drill to the Mohorovičić discontinuity from deep-ocean regions. Shor was born in New York City on June...
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Earth's inner core (redirect from Bullen Discontinuity)
the "Lehmann discontinuity", although the name usually refers to another discontinuity. The name "Bullen" or "Lehmann-Bullen discontinuity", after Keith...
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the Mohorovičić discontinuity (the Moho). The Moho is seismologically defined as the boundary between the crust and mantle. Mohorovičić discontinuity –...
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40,230 feet) KTB Borehole (1987–1995, 9,101 m or 29,859 feet) Mohorovičić discontinuity Project Mohole Shiels, Maggie (December 5, 2003). "Project to...
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in the development of an understanding of plate tectonics, the Mohorovičić discontinuity at Gros Morne was included by the International Union of Geological...
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