The Mohorovičić discontinuity (/ˌmoʊhəˈroʊvɪtʃɪtʃ/ MOH-hə-ROH-vih-chitch; Croatian: [moxorôʋiːtʃitɕ]) – usually called the Moho discontinuity, Moho boundary...

Andrija Mohorovičić (23 January 1857 – 18 December 1936) was a Croatian geophysicist. He is best known for the eponymous Mohorovičić discontinuity and is...

weathers relatively rapidly to clay minerals such as smectite. The Mohorovičić discontinuity, which defines the boundary between the Earth's crust and the...

continental crust and the lower one. It is not as pronounced as the Mohorovičić discontinuity, and absent in some continental regions. Up to the middle 20th...

crust-mantle boundary occurs as two physically different phenomena. The Mohorovičić discontinuity is a distinct change of seismic wave velocity. This is caused...

referred to as the Oldham-Gutenberg discontinuity, or the Wiechert-Gutenberg discontinuity. Lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary Mohorovičić discontinuity...

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...

between the crust and mantle is conventionally placed at the Mohorovičić discontinuity, a boundary defined by a contrast in seismic velocity. The temperature...

seismic waves, which Andrija Mohorovičić first noted in 1909; this boundary is now referred to as the Mohorovičić discontinuity or "Moho." The Moho defines...

viscous solid mantle. The crust is separated from the mantle by the Mohorovičić discontinuity. The thickness of the crust varies from about 6 kilometers (3...

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century.In 1909, Andrija Mohorovičić identified a significant boundary within the Earth known as the Mohorovičić discontinuity, which demarcates the transition...

(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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Antarctica's largest known subglacial lake List of deepest mines Mohorovičić discontinuity – Boundary between the Earth's crust and the mantle San Andreas...

magnetic polarity. Oceans portal Continental crust Lithosphere Mohorovičić discontinuity Plate tectonics Seabed 2030 Seafloor depth versus age Gillis et...

"Mohorovičić" level, originally from Mohorovičić discontinuity named after Croatian seismologist Andrija Mohorovičić. Giant klaxosaurs (hundreds of meters...

Seismology UNESCO world heritage site Glarus Thrust Volcanology Mohorovičić discontinuity Harper, Douglas. "tectonic". Online Etymology Dictionary. Geologists...

ambitious attempt to drill through the Earth's crust into the Mohorovičić discontinuity, abandoned in 1966 Chikyū, Japan's outreach program to promote...

basaltic magmas are trapped during their rise to the surface at the Mohorovičić discontinuity or within the crust. Entrapment (or 'stalling out') of magmas...

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...

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...

transitional between typical oceanic and continental profiles and the Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) appears to lie at about 20 kilometres (12 mi) depth. These...

Command. Retrieved August 27, 2018. "Mohorovicic Discontinuity - The Moho". Geology.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05. Mohorovičić, St. (1934-01-01). "Möglichkeit...

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...

the "Lehmann discontinuity", although the name usually refers to another discontinuity. The name "Bullen" or "Lehmann-Bullen discontinuity", after Keith...

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...

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...

the Mohorovičić discontinuity (the Moho). The Moho is seismologically defined as the boundary between the crust and mantle. Mohorovičić discontinuity –...

ambitious attempt to drill through the Earth's crust into the Mohorovičić discontinuity. The project was discontinued due to high cost. The Kola Superdeep...