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Andrija Mohorovicic

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Noun1.Andrija Mohorovicic - Yugoslav geophysicist for whom the Mohorovicic discontinuity was named (1857-1936)
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One of the first results was the discovery that the ocean crust appeared to present a consistent, layered seismic structure composed of sediments (layer 1 at the seafloor) followed by two layers with rapidly increasing sound velocity, and then a reflector, dubbed the Moho after the its discoverer, a Czechoslovakian seismologist named Andrija Mohorovicic.
Indian Ocean's Atlantis Bank yields deep-Earth insight by Dick, Henry J.B. / Oceanus
Discovered in 1909 by yugoslavian seismologist Andrija Mohorovicic, the continental Moho resides at depths of 35 kilometers, where the speeds of seismic waves traveling through the earth abruptly change.
The Moho is immutable no more by Weisburd, Stefi / Science News
When Croatian seismologist Andrija Mohorovicic published his landmark discovery of a shallow transition to a remarkably uniform layer of high sound (or seismic) velocities in 1909, he had, in fact, discovered the boundary between Earth's crust and upper mantle, which is now known as the Moho.
Marine seismology by Purdy, G.M. / Oceanus
 
 
 
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