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…
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…
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…
Embroidering Microfossils
This pdf provides templates for many microfossils, however, there are hundreds of types not included here. You can find more…
The “Hole” Story about Ocean Cores
Lab groups can work together to examine high resolution photos and data from four cores taken at various depths in…
Tahitian Sea Level Change Core (IODP 310)
The two 30cm replicas of 310-20A-22R-2 display coral sandstone and massive coral (Porites) in growth position with interbedded microbiolites (organosedimentary…
Saanich Inlet Core Model (ODP 178)
The sediment cored at Saanich Inlet off Vancouver Island, British Columbia contains evidence of catastrophic flooding events – called Jokulhlaups…
Palmer Deep Core Model (ODP 178)
This model shows seasonal layers (laminae) composed of different diatoms species that were deposited during the late Holocene and provides…