The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mohorovicic discontinuity \Mohorovicic discontinuity\, n. (Geol.) same as 2nd Moho.
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Usage examples of "mohorovicic discontinuity".
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.
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.