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Behind the Science – APC, XCB, RCB : a world of acronyms
One of the first things that I realized living on the JOIDES Resolution is that the people speak using a…
How we drill and core in hard sediments and rocks
When we want to drill into hard sediments and rocks, we have to change the drill bit. In the deeper…
From site U1459C we have a core that shouldn't be
Even Empty Cores Have Silver Linings
We’ve finished drilling at site U1459A, and it was certainly a challenge. It didn’t have the chunky fragments like U1458…
Drilling into the Depths of the Bengal Fan
Preparations are underway at our third and deepest site. Our target depth is 1500 meters below the seafloor, which is…
Our Coring Toolkit
A few days ago we broke the scientific ocean drilling record for the deepest APC core ever obtained (687.4 meters below the…