Scientific drilling beneath the oceans solves earthly problems

Neville Exon*

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    Abstract

    Australia and New Zealand are partners in the world’s largest international geoscience program, the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), which involves both geoscientists and microbiologists. IODP takes sediment and rock cores from as deep as several kilometres below the sea bed, in order to explore how the Earth has worked in the past and how it is working now. Many ocean drilling expeditions have been carried out in our region since the early 1970s and a great amount of fascinating scientific knowledge of global significance has been gained.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)37-47
    Number of pages11
    JournalAustralian Journal of Maritime and Ocean Affairs
    Volume2
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2010

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