Expedition 398: A Story Told in 34 Cores
Welcome to a story about the formation of volcanoes! This book is a compilation of 34 very detailed photographs of…
Oceanic Crust and Age
Earthquakes and Plate Boundaries
Measuring Cores: Practice Using Rulers
Finding Fossils: A Biostratigraphy Activity
The aim of this exercise is to show students how we determine the age of a sediment sample on board…
Density of Oceanic Crust
Certain properties of a substance are both distinctive and relatively easy to determine. Density, the ratio between a sample’s mass and…
Core Understanding: Description and Lithostratigraphy
The shipboard sedimentologists are responsible for describing the lithology and stratigraphy of sediments and sedimentary rocks that are recovered by…
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…
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…