Drilling cores on the sea floor with the remote-controlled sea floor drilling rig MeBo

The sea floor drill rig MeBo (acronym for <i>Meeresboden-Bohrgerät</i>, German for sea floor drill rig) is a robotic drill rig that is deployed on the sea floor and operated remotely from the research vessel to drill up to 80 m into the sea floor. It was developed at the MARUM Research C...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: T. Freudenthal, G. Wefer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2013-12-01
Series:Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems
Online Access:http://www.geosci-instrum-method-data-syst.net/2/329/2013/gi-2-329-2013.pdf