Mo|ho|ro|vic|ic discontinuity
- Mo|ho|ro|vic|ic discontinuity
Mo|ho|ro|vic|ic discontinuity «MOH hoh roh VEE cheech»,
the boundary between the earth's crust and mantle, the depth of which varies from approximately 6 to 8 miles under ocean basins to 20 to 22 miles under the continents.
╂[< A. Mohorovičić, a Croatian geophysicist, who discovered it in 1909 from studies of earthquake records]
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