Ocean Drilling Program
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The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) was a multinational effort to explore and study the composition and structure of the Earth's oceanic basins, running from 1985 to 2004. ODP was the successor to the Deep Sea Drilling Project initiated in 1968 by the United States. ODP was an international effort with contributions of Australia, Germany, France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the ESF Consortium for Ocean Drilling (ECOD) including 12 further countries. The program used the drillship JOIDES Resolution on 110 expeditions (legs) to collect about 2,000 deep sea cores from major geological features located in the ocean basins of the world. Drilling discoveries led to further questions and hypotheses, as well as to new disciplines in earth sciences such as the field of paleoceanography.
In 2004 ODP transformed into the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).[1]
See also
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- Project Mohole – Attempt to drill through Earth's crust
- Deep Sea Drilling Project – Ocean drilling research program between 1968–1983
- Integrated Ocean Drilling Program – Marine research program between 2003–2013 to monitor and sample sub-seafloor environments
- Allison Guyot – Seamount in the Pacific Ocean
References
[edit]- ^ Ocean Drilling Program (2007). Final Technical Report 1983–2007 (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 11 July 2019.
External links
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