The continental Mohorovičić discontinuity: Results from near‐vertical and wide‐angle seismic reflection studies

LW Braile, CS Chiang - Reflection seismology: A global …, 1986 - Wiley Online Library
The continental Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) has been recognized worldwide from
refracted (Pn) and wide‐angle reflected (PmP) phases from earthquake and explosive …

The Mohorovičić discontinuity beneath the continental crust: An overview of seismic constraints

R Carbonell, A Levander, R Kind - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The seismic signature of the Moho from which geologic and tectonic evolution hypotheses
are derived is to a large degree a result of the seismic methodology which has been used to …

The seismic reflection character of the continental Mohorovicic discontinuity

LD Hale, GA Thompson - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1982 - Wiley Online Library
The continental Mohorovicic discontinuity is most often interpreted as a step‐function
velocity boundary. However, on deep crustal seismic reflection profiles, reflections, at depths …

How the crust meets the mantle: Lithoprobe perspectives on the Mohorovičić discontinuity and crust–mantle transition

FA Cook, DJ White, AG Jones… - … Journal of Earth …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Application of regional geophysical and geological methods throughout two decades of
Canada's Lithoprobe project provides new opportunities to analyze the Mohorovičić …

Fine structure of the continental reflection Moho

FA Cook - Geological Society of America Bulletin, 2002 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Comparisons of deep seismic reflection profiles from a variety of tectonic regions that span a
large fraction of the Earth's history lead to a threefold categorization of reflection patterns …

The 'Moho'as a transition zone

R Meissner - Geophysical surveys, 1973 - Springer
Results of deep seismic soundings from various areas of the world are presented. Much
weight is put on recent European investigations. Seismic refraction surveys are found to …

[PDF][PDF] Estimating a continuous Moho surface for the California unified velocity model

C Tape, A Plesch, JH Shaw… - Seismological Research …, 2012 - researchgate.net
The Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) is a globally identifiable boundary between the crust
and the uppermost mantle (Dziewonski and Anderson, 1981). It is detected using seismic …

[PDF][PDF] 4 Moho depth

P Giese, H Buness - Atlas of Compiled Data, 1992 - epic.awi.de
The crust/mantle boundary, ie the Mohorovicic, or simply Moho, discontinuity represents the
major petrological boundary between the continental crust and upper mantle. Referring to …

Moho:: 100 years after Andrija Mohorovičić

H Thybo, IM Artemieva, B Kennett - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
In October 1909 an earthquake near Pokupsko, about 40 km to the southeast of Zagreb in
Croatia, sparked the interest of the meteorologist and seismologist Andrija Mohorovičić. He …

The Mohorovicic discontinuity in ocean basins: Some observations from seismic data

JC Mutter, HD Carton - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
Since the late 1970s studies of the oceanic crust using airgun sources and towed
hydrophone arrays have been conducted in a wide range of ocean basin settings including …