This region is deepest beneath the Tibetan plateau. One American proposal in the 1950s that involved drilling through the ocean floor to reach this area fizzled out, while the Kola Institute drilled to a depth of 12,260 meters in a different aborted attempt.
This region is deepest beneath the Tibetan plateau. One American proposal in the 1950s that involved drilling through the ocean floor to reach this area fizzled out, while the Kola Institute drilled to a depth of 12,260 meters in a different aborted attempt. It is unverified by direct means and is an area containing mostly peridotite, similar to the Weichert-Gutenberg one. Velocity of P-Waves abruptly increases in this area first discovered after a 1908 earthquake in Zagreb. Lying mostly within the lithosphere 5 km under the ocean floor and 35 km under most continents, FTP, name this region between the crust and the mantle.
This region is deepest beneath the Tibetan plateau. One American proposal in the 1950s that involved drilling through the ocean floor to reach this area fizzled out, while the Kola Institute drilled to a depth of 12,260 meters in a different aborted attempt.
{Mohorovicic discontinuity} or {Moho discontinuity} (NOT Mohorovic, accept