Project Mohole
Project Mohole records, 1958-1966.
This collection includes records of Project Mohole, which was never completed. the project was led by the American Miscellaneous Society (AMSOC) and the National Research Council's Division of Earth Sciences.
Project Mohole was an attempt to retrieve a sample of material from the earth's mantle by drilling a hole through the earth's crust to the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, or Moho. The project was suggested in March 1957 by Walter Munk, NAS member (1956) and member of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Earth Science Panel.
American Miscellaneous Society.
National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Earth Sciences
Project Mohole
Mohorovicic discontinuity
AIP-ICOS
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