Moho discontinuity

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Moho discontinuity

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The Mohorovičić discontinuity; the Moho. 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.

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@misc{moho_discontinuity_2026,
  title = {Moho discontinuity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/moho%20discontinuity},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}