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 (DSDP) initiated in 1968 by the United States. ODP was an international effort with contributions of Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) including 12 further countries. The program used the drillship JOIDES Resolution, which had more advanced drilling technology and laboratories on board than the Glomar Challenger, the ship used in DSDP. The ship visited 669 sites and recovered 35,772 cores from major geological features located in the ocean basins of the world.[1] Drilling discoveries led to further questions and hypotheses, as well as to new disciplines in earth sciences such as the field of paleoceanography.
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In 2004 ODP transformed into the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).[2]
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
- Seafloor Spreading - verified by data from ODP, most significant scientific accomplishment
References
[edit]- ^ lling, Committee on the Review of the Scientific Accomplishments and Assessment of the Potential for Future Transformative Discoveries with U. S.-Supported Scientific Ocean (2011). Scientific Ocean Drilling: Accomplishments and Challenges. Washington: National Academies Press. ISBN 978-0-309-21901-3.
- ^ Ocean Drilling Program (2007). Final Technical Report 1983–2007 (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 11 July 2019.
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