Question

why the Moho is located at a greater depth under high mountain ranges than under the deep ocean basins.

Answer 1

Answer:

As the crust is thicker and less dense in mountains ranges.

Explanation:

• Moho is a boundary between the earth's crust and mantle and is a depth of 8 km at the surface and 32 km beneath the continents.

• The lower density material beneath the earth's crust is called the lithospheric crust and the higher density of material located below this layer is the mantel.

• This Moho is also called moho-discontinuity and here the seismic waves change their velocity before reaching the surface.

Answer 2

The Moho is located at a greater depth under high mountain ranges than under the deep ocean basins because of granite continental crust.

Moho

The layer between the earth's crust and mantle is called moho.

The boundary is between 5 and 8 km deep under the ocean floor.

The reason for that is the presence of the thinnest Basalt oceanic crust under the ocean.

The thickest layer under high mountain ranges is the granite continental crust.

In the high mountain ranges its depth goes under 35km.

Therefore we can conclude that Basalt oceanic crust is the reason for the thinnest layer under the Ocean.

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