CORE DESCRIBERS : 3 teams, 3 specialities, 1 goal ! EPISODE 4 Metamorphic geologists
This team is composed of Riccardo Tribuzio, Italy, Juergen Koepke, Germany, Toshi Nosaka, Japan, James Leong, Philippines, Qiang Ma, China….
Atlantis Bank: A Mountain Under the Sea
For over a month now, the JOIDES resolution has maintained its position in the southwest Indian Ocean, 700 meters above…
CORE DESCRIBERS : 3 teams, 3 specialities, 1 goal ! episode 3 Structural Geol. con't
Man Overboard Drill
Safety is always first aboard the JOIDES Resolution and one way that the crew ensures everyone is safe is by…
We found the cone!
No, not that kind of cone. This kind of cone. There are typically 4 attached to the drill…
Art in the rock … What do you see in these thin sections ? EPISODE 2
Answer episode 1 : A horse giving birth … by Jiansong Zhang our poetry-geologist ! Can you guess this one…
The Biggest Core
Yesterday, by complete accident, we recovered the largest diameter core in ocean drilling history! Here’s how it happened… Our story…
The Magnetism of Rocks
We’ve all played with magnets before, but no one knows magnetism like the Paleomag team aboard the JOIDES Resolution. Shipboard paleomagnetists…
The Moho Mohawk (No coring = boring)
Over the transit, during our medical evacuation, the scientists on board were able to catch up on a bit of…
Art in the rock … What do you see in these thin sections ? EPISODE 1
Jiansong Zhang, our Chinese reporter, gives a new vision of these ‘dry’ olivine-gabbro!!! let’s see Courtesy of Bill Crawford, IODP…