English

Noun

Moho discontinuity ‎(uncountable)

1. (geology) The Mohorovičić discontinuity; the Moho.
   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, p. 189:

     Specifically, they got the idea to drill through the ocean floor (the continental crust was too thick) to the Moho discontinuity and to extract a piece of the Earth's mantle for examination at leisure.