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Mohole
[ moh-hohl ]
noun
- a hole bored through the earth's crust into the region below the MohoDZčć discontinuity, for geological research.
Mohole
/ ˈəʊˌəʊ /
noun
- an abandoned research project to drill through the earth's crust down to the MohoDZčć discontinuity to obtain samples of mantle rocks
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Mohole1
Ѵ(ǰDZčć) ( MohoDZčć discontinuity ) + hole
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Mohole1
C20: from Moho ( DZčć ) + hole . See MohoDZčć discontinuity
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The 1961 project, called Project Mohole, was the first of a handful of unsuccessful attempts to reach the mantle.
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An American effort, known as Project Mohole, attempted to drill deep into the floor of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico in 1958.
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In the 1950s, he was a key player in Project Mohole — an audacious attempt to drill through Earth’s crust to obtain a sample of the mantle at the boundary, the MohoDZčć discontinuity.
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On the whole, this effort, centered around Project MOHOLE, failed.
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The project became known, all but inevitably, as the Mohole and it was pretty well disastrous.
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