News
- IODP/ECORD present booths at Goldschmidt 2012, Montréal, Canada
- Opportunities for Educators to Sail on JR
- TV NZ: Japanese expedition will aid NZ quake studies
- Nature Article on Exp.323
- NSF Letter to Community (PDF)
- Chikyu Completes Exp. 343-JFAST
- Next IODP Exp. 342 Newfoundland Teaser
- Record-breaking deep-sea drill to probe warm sediments
- Plans unveiled to drill world's deepest drill
Recent Expeditions
Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project
Importance for Understanding the devastating Tsunami from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake- started April 1 focuses on understanding the very large fault slip that occurred on the shallow portion of the subuction zone during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake.
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Paleogene Newfoundland Sediment Drifts
Expedition 342 wll drill a depth transect between ~2400 and 5000 m water depth into a sequence of rapidly accumulated sediment drifts of Paleogene age on J Anomaly Ridge and Southeast Newfoundland Ridge. The science party will study multiple extreme climate events at unprecedented temporal resolution from a high-latitude site during an interval of time when Earth was much warmer than today.
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