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Mo·ho

 (mō′hō′)
n.
The Mohorovičić discontinuity.
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Moho

(ˈməʊhəʊ)
n
(Geological Science) short for Mohorovičić discontinuity
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Noun1.Moho - the boundary between the Earth's crust and the underlying mantle; "the Mohorovicic discontinuity averages 5 miles down under oceans and 20 miles down under continents"
geology - a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks
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The researchers studied the Borgarhraun eruption of the Theistareykir volcano in northern Iceland, which occurred roughly 10,000 years ago, and was fed directly from the Moho. This boundary area plays an important role in the processing of melts as they travel from their source regions in the mantle towards the Earth's surface.
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Ever since, earth scientists have yearned to find out what really happens at the Moho. An ambitious effort to drill to the Moho called Project Mohole was launched in the early 1960s--in the same hopeful era when the United States launched its space program.
(2003) provided information about the Moho depth, in many locations in Greenland, calculated from receiver-function analysis.
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lithospheric folding), we address here the study of the geometry of the Moho and lithosphere-asthenosphere interfaces in the CVP and its vicinity by means of gravity analysis and 2+1/2D modeling.
Quest'ultima riflessione e emblematica di come il libro contenga moho piu di quanto il titolo prometta.