New Focus on the Tales of the Earth—Legacy Cores Redistribution Project Completed

Scientific drilling for marine cores began in 1968 under the auspices of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP), whose initial discoveries included salt domes on the sea floor and formation of oceanic crust by sea-floor spreading along the mid-ocean ridges rift zone. Analyses of cores in various labor...

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Main Authors: Ursula Röhl, John Firth, Lallan Gupta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2009-03-01
Series:Scientific Drilling
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Online Access:http://www.iodp.org/images/stories/downloads/sd7_09.pdf#page=31