[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

"Another reason for abandoning the MOHOLE was that much of the stuff to be studied is just lying on the ground in northern California (actually, it is the ground.) Much of that area is sea-crust as opposed to continental crust."

The mohole project was not about the crust it was about going through the crust to sample the mantle.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The geologists I knew told me that lots of the MOHOLE work was for looking at oceanic crust. Of course, going to the mantle would be different. Now that Haliburton has absorbed Brown&Root and there's another Texan in the White House, maybe they'll try again.