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Usage examples of "mohorovicic".
As a geophysical oceanographer Suzanne was well aware that the Mohorovicic discontinuity was the name given to a specific layer within the earth that marked an abrupt change in the velocity of sound or seismic waves.
The Mohorovicic discontinuity definitely exists, and no one ever has been able to explain it.
It would be quite possible to drill there, into the top of the mantle, penetrating the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, however.
They were drilling a hole through the Mohorovicic discontinuity to the mantle beneath, a near part of the Earth that the creatures who inhabited its surface had never seen, never touched by drill, whose only evidence came through reflected waves of sound.
And the robot digs deeper and deeper, approaching the Mohorovicic layer, with the true mantle not far beneath, seething, waiting, as it had waited for four billion years, would wait should this attempt fail, should all attempts fail.
The Mohorovicic Discontinuity was mined on both sides of the Red Sea Fault.
We call it the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, after the Yugoslav scientist who discovered it by analysis of seismic tracings.
In geology, there is something called the Mohorovicic discontinuity named for its Yugoslavian discoverer.
The borehole is little more than a vertical shaft melted straight down through many kilometers of solid rock, piercing the Mohorovicic discontinuity and tapping the planets mantle.
Not with a transmitter sunk below the Mohorovicic Discontinuity in an insulated vault, powered by the core heat.