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The boundary separating the base of the Earth's crust and the top of the mantle. The Moho occurs at a depth of 5-10 kilometers beneath oceanic crust and about 35-65 kilometers below continental crust. The term moho is an abbreviation for Mohorovicic discontinuity, named for Andrija Mohorovicic, a Croatian seismologist.
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