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Oceanographers develop method for measuring the pace of life

(PhysOrg.com) -- Life deep in the seabed proceeds very slowly. But the slow-growing bacteria living many meters beneath the seafloor play an important role in the global storage of organic carbon and have a long-term effect ...

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created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

International drilling expedition to probe Japanese fault zone

(PhysOrg.com) -- The scientific drilling ship Chikyu will set sail on April 1 on an ambitious expedition to drill into the fault that caused the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Emily ...

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created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Expedition to undersea mountain yields new information about sub-seafloor structure

Scientists recently concluded an expedition aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution to learn more about Atlantis Massif, an undersea mountain, or seamount, that formed in a very different way than the ...

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Chikyu to set sail for IODP expedition: Japan trench fast drilling project

The Deep-Sea Scientific Drilling Vessel Chikyu, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), will embark on Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 343 Japan ...

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created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists aboard Iberian coast ocean drilling expedition report early findings

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mediterranean bottom currents and the sediment deposits they leave behind offer new insights into global climate change, the opening and closing of ocean circulation gateways and locations ...

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Scientists look to microbes to unlock Earth's deep secrets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Of all the habitable parts of our planet, one ecosystem still remains largely unexplored and unknown to science: the igneous ocean crust.

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Rise of atmospheric oxygen more complicated than previously thought

The appearance of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to an international team of researchers who investigated rock ...

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created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

International research team to bore into tectonic plates off Japan

An international research team will use the deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu to bore into an area where two tectonic plates meet to study the movements of the plates that caused the Great East Japan Earthquake, according to ...

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created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mantle drilling initial feasibility study completed

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) has announced completion of a feasibility study of drilling and coring activities that would be conducted in an ultra-deepwater environment into very high temperature igneous rocks ...

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created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Heavy metal meets hard rock: Battling through the ocean crust's hardest rocks

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 335 Superfast Spreading Rate Crust 4 recently completed operations in Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Hole 1256D, a deep scientific borehole that extends more ...

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created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Volcano study lays foundations for ancient maps

Research into submarine volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean will lay the groundwork for scientists to map the Earth as it was millions of years ago.

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created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Drilling in the holy land

About 50 miles from Bethlehem, a drilling project is determining the climate and earthquake activity of the Holy Land. Scientists from eight nations are examining the ground below the Dead Sea, by placing a borehole in this ...

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created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists drill beneath Dead Sea in search of priceless data

If you thought you couldn't get any lower than the Dead Sea, think again. You can go under it.

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created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 4

URI oceanographer to lead return visit to least inhabited place on Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Four University of Rhode Island oceanographers depart next week for an international research expedition to the middle of the South Pacific Gyre - an area that is as far from any continent as is possible ...

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created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Subseafloor observatories installed to run dynamic experiments

Marine geologists have returned from two months at sea off British Columbia, Canada, where they installed two observatories in the ocean floor to run innovative experiments at the bottom of the sea.

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created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0