Ocean Drilling Project

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Ocean Drilling Project

international scientific effort

Also known as: ODP, Ocean Drilling Program

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Antarctica
The surrounding seas
…began in 1985 with the Ocean Drilling Program, using the new drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution to expand earlier Glomar Challenger studies. Studies in the Weddell Sea (1986–87) suggested that surface waters were warm during Late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic time and that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet did
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…began in 1985 with the Ocean Drilling Program, using the new drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution to expand earlier Glomar Challenger studies. Studies in the Weddell Sea (1986–87) suggested that surface waters were warm during Late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic time and that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet did
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Glomar Challenger
…Sea Drilling Project (later the Ocean Drilling Project; ODP), it was equipped with a drilling derrick 43 metres (140 feet) high and was capable of drilling more than 1,700 metres (5,570 feet) into the ocean floor. It investigated some 624 sites in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, not only…
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…Sea Drilling Project (later the Ocean Drilling Project; ODP), it was equipped with a drilling derrick 43 metres (140 feet) high and was capable of drilling more than 1,700 metres (5,570 feet) into the ocean floor. It investigated some 624 sites in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, not only…
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