Ocean drilling: Forty years of international collaboration

Deborah K. Smith, Neville Exon, Fernando J.A.S. Barriga, Yoshiyuki Tatsumi

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    Abstract

    International cooperation is an essential component of modern scientific research and societal advancement [see Ismail-Zadeh and Beer, 2009], and scientific ocean drilling represents one of Earth science's longest-running and most successful international collaborations. The strength of this collaboration and its continued success result from the realization that scientific ocean drilling provides a unique and powerful tool to study the critical processes of both short-term change and the long-term evolution of Earth systems. A record of Earth's changing tectonics, climate, ocean circulation, and biota is preserved in marine sedimentary deposits and the underlying basement rocks. And because the ocean floor is the natural site for accumulation and preservation of geological materials, it may preserve a continuous record of these processes.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)393-394
    Number of pages2
    JournalEos
    Volume91
    Issue number43
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010

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