Guaymas Basin Tectonics and Biosphere
Scientists in Expedition 385 will explore the intricate processes that arise in the Guaymas Basin.
Return to Hole U1503A (South China Sea)
Expedition 368X was planned to reoccupy a site started by Expedition 368. Due to equipment breakdown during Expedition 368, Hole U1503A was abandoned after installing casing to 991.5 m below sea floor. Expedition 368X was able to take advantage of a unique opportunity in the JOIDES Resolution schedule.
School of Rock 2013: Exploring Ocean Cores and the Geology of the Pacific Northwest
During this School of Rock, participants will convene in Victoria, British Columbia for an engaging and hands-on professional development experience…
School of Rock 2005
An Ocean-going, Hands-on Research Expedition for Earth and Ocean Science Teachers The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program – United States Implementing…
South China Sea Rifted Margin B
Along the South China Sea Rifted Margin (SCSRM) a thinning crust of Earth’s outermost shell, the lithosphere, creates a mystery to unravel. Expeditions 367 and 368 of the International Ocean Discovery Program worked together over the course of 4 months at sea to uncover the processes of continental break up. By retrieving core samples from the bottom of the SCSRM the team of 66 international scientists looked back in time, the geologic record, at the opening of SCSRM.
South China Sea Rifted Margin A
Which tectonic model is the one in action in the South China Sea? One of these two already known or even a third one? This was the main goal of Expedition 367 (and 368 also) in the South China Sea (SCS). By drilling along the SCS rifted margin scientists wanted to understand the mechanisms of lithosphere extension during continental breakup in a magma-poor rifted margin.
Izu-Bonin-Mariana Rear Arc
Scientists targeted the Izu-Bonin-Mariana (IBM) arc, off the southern coast of Japan, to understand the initiation and evolution of oceanic arcs which produce a string of volcanic islands above the subduction zone.
Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc Origins
Scientists studied both the sediment of the oceanic crust and igneous basement to identify processes associated with subduction.
Izu-Bonin-Mariana Forearc
What happens at the edges of large oceanic plates when subduction begins?
South China Sea Tectonics
Scientists investigated the formation of the South China Sea, a marginal sea in the Western Pacific located south of China and between the Philippines in the east and Vietnam in the west.