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Moho discontinuity

 
Geography Dictionary: Moho discontinuity

Mohorovičić discontinuity

The boundary in the earth's interior between the crust and the upper mantle. It occurs at about 35 km below the continents and at around 10 km beneath the oceans, and marks a change in rock density from 3.3 (crust) to 4.7 (mantle).

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lithosphere (in geology)
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