Core Section Curation
Upon recovery from the drill floor, each section of a core must be identified and catalogued. A detailed curation system…
Drilling Rates through Oceanic Crust
Composition, structure, fracturing, and other factors may influence the length of time required for drilling through oceanic crust. The drilling…
A Tale of Two Teeth
This lesson is a storytelling activity—a story that has characters (including a villain), a series of mysteries (starting with unexplained…
An Expedition to the Seafloor
Check out Virtual Expedition to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge for an updated version of this lesson! The goal of the Deep Sea…
The Race is On…with Seafloor Spreading
Check out Where the Pacific, Cocos, and Nazca Meet for an updated version of this resource! Seafloor spreading is one component…
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) in Review
Since 1968, scientific ocean drilling has tapped into a considerable archive of Earth history, and in doing so has revealed…
Continents and Currents
During World War II, an American attack transport captain, named Harry Hess, noticed that the size of submarine volcanoes became…
CORKS in the Crust
We made an updated version of this lesson! Check out Put a CORK in It: Monitoring Conditions Under the Seafloor! Since…
Microfossils in Blake’s Nose
Check out Drilling into Deep Time to see an updated version of this resource!
