Mohorovičić Discontinuity 5
Mohorovičić Discontinuity 5 :
Natural Disaster. A discontinuity in seismic velocities that defines the boundary between crust and mantle of the Earth. Named after the Croation seismologist Andrija Mohorovičič (1857-1936) who discovered it. The boundary is between 20 and 60 km deep beneath the continents and between 5 and 10 km deep beneath the ocean floor. See Fig. 2.10 ??? in Chapter 2 of this Manual, Mooney et al. (2002), Minshull (2002), and the biography of Andrija Mohorovičič in Howell (2003)
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