Moho discontinuity
English
Noun
- (geology) The Mohorovičić discontinuity; the Moho.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, p. 189:
- Specifically, they got the idea to drill through the ocean floor (the continental crust was too thick) to the Moho discontinuity and to extract a piece of the Earth's mantle for examination at leisure.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, p. 189:
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