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Scientists have mapped the boundary globally between the Earth's crust and its mantle - the so-called Moho boundary - in unprecedented detail.
They used gravity measurements from the European Space Agency's Goce satellite to model its location.
The famous "discontinuity" lies some 10-70km below the surface and marks a sharp change in rock properties.
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Mapping the Mohorovicic discontinuity with GOCE

The first global high-resolution map of the boundary between Earth's crust and mantle - the Mohorovicic discontinuity - has been produced based on data from ESA's GOCE gravity satellite. Understanding the Mohorovicic discontinuity will offer new clues into the dynamics of Earth's interior.
Earth's crust is the outermost solid shell of our planet. Even though it makes up less than 1% of the volume of the planet, the crust is exceptionally important not just because we live on it, but because is the place where all our geological resources like natural gas, oil and minerals come from.
The crust and upper mantle is also the place where most geological processes of great importance occur, such as earthquakes, volcanism and orogeny.
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