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Point deep under the ocean floor
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moho
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Moho \Mo"ho\, n. [Short for Mohorovicic discontinuity, from Andrija Mohorovi[ccaron]i[cacute], a Yugoslavian geologist.] (Geol.) The boundary between the earth's crust and the semiliquid mantle beneath. It varies in depth from 3 miles beneath the surface ...
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n. The North Island takahē, an extinct rail of New Zealand.
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The Moho discontinuity, that sharp line where the crust met the mantle, seemed to lie from ten to forty miles below sea level.
Since no one had ever been able to get magma from the Moho, although both Americans and Russians had tried during the Cold War, Perry decided to go back and drill into the mountain in hopes that Benthic Marine might be the first organization to sample the molten material.
Way down in the moho, five hundred-year-old fingernails began tearing painfully free.