Antarctica and Neogene Global Climate Change
In this chapter you will build basic geographic and geologic knowledge of Antarctica and use geologic reasoning. In Part 11.1, you will…
In this chapter you will build basic geographic and geologic knowledge of Antarctica and use geologic reasoning. In Part 11.1, you will…
Upon recovery from the drill floor, each section of a core must be identified and catalogued. A detailed curation system…
Composition, structure, fracturing, and other factors may influence the length of time required for drilling through oceanic crust. The drilling…
This lesson is a storytelling activity—a story that has characters (including a villain), a series of mysteries (starting with unexplained…
The goal of the Deep Sea Drilling Project was to investigate the sediments and rocks beneath the deep oceans by…
Seafloor spreading is one component of the theory of plate tectonics. At mid-ocean ridges in many of the world’s oceans, new…
Since 1968, scientific ocean drilling has tapped into a considerable archive of Earth history, and in doing so has revealed…
During World War II, an American attack transport captain, named Harry Hess, noticed that the size of submarine volcanoes became…
Since 1968, the scientific ocean drilling programs (DSDP, ODP, and IODP) have studied Earth’s history by sampling and analyzing rock…