Project Mohole was an attempt in the early 1960s to drill through the Earth's crust to obtain samples of the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or Moho, the boundary...
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its lifting cradle using concepts developed with Global Marine (see Project Mohole) that used their precision stability equipment to keep the ship nearly...
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Project Mohole was an attempt to drill to the Moho from deep-ocean regions. After initial success in establishing deep-ocean drilling, the project suffered...
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two or more members were together. The most famous project to come out of AMSOC was the Project Mohole, whose goal was to drill into the Earth's mantle...
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Elizabeth Noble Shor (section Project Mohole)
biography of Hubbs for the National Academy of Sciences published in 1987. Project Mohole aimed to obtain a sample of the Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) by...
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San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (category Seismological observatories, organisations and projects)
101 m or 29,859 feet) Mohorovičić discontinuity Project Mohole Shiels, Maggie (December 5, 2003). "Project to drill into Earth fault". BBC News. Retrieved...
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Walter Munk (section Project Mohole)
August 14, 2011. The National Academies. "Project Mohole: Commemorating the Accomplishments of Project Mohole 1961-2011". Archived from the original on...
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continental crust. The first attempt at mantle exploration, known as Project Mohole, was abandoned in 1966 after repeated failures and cost over-runs. The...
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Kola Superdeep Borehole (category Cancelled projects)
or removed. The United States had embarked on a similar project in 1957, dubbed Project Mohole, which was intended to penetrate the shallow crust under...
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fleet. The first offshore drillship was the CUSS 1 developed for the Mohole project to drill into the Earth's crust. As of June 2010, there were over 620...
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