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The Mohole Mystery

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or "Moho". The project came to be called the "No Hole", and was discontinued by the US Congress in 1966 due to ever-rising costs and the fact that they had only managed to drill to a depth of 601 ft.
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region of the United Kingdom hits a cavern 20 miles beneath the surface of the Earth and detects strange
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was an American project to sink a bore-hole through 15,000 ft of the Earth's
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in 1968, in the US by Criterion Books in 1969 under the title
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This article about a 1960s science fiction novel is a
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Index


Hugh Walters
Leslie Wood
Science fiction
Faber
Hardback
Spaceship to Saturn
Nearly Neptune
Children's literature portal
science fiction
novel
Hugh Walters
Faber
French
Portuguese
Dudley
West Midlands
microbes
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Project Mohole
crust
Mohorovičić discontinuity


Bryson, Bill
ISBN
0-385-66198-3
The Mohole Mystery page
Reference in the black country echo

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