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Andrija Mohorovicic
moh-hoh-ROH-vih-chich
Seismologist
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A Croatian meteorologist and seismologist who found, in the seismic record of a single 1909 earthquake, the sharp discontinuity separating Earth's crust from its mantle, a boundary that still carries his name in every geology textbook.
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BirthplaceVolosko, Opatija, Austrian Littoral, Austrian Empire 1 Defining ContributionAnalyzing seismic wave data from a 1909 earthquake, discovered the sharp boundary separating the Earth's crust from its mantle, now called the Mohorovicic discontinuity, and used the way the waves reflected and refracted there to estimate the crust's thickness at roughly 54 kilometers. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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