News tagged with drilling project

West Antarctic ice comes and goes, rapidly

Mar 18, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (16) | 8

Researchers today worry about the collapse of West Antarctic ice shelves and loss of the West Antarctic ice sheet, but little is known about the past movements of this ice. Now climatologists from Penn State ...

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Scientists' Drill Hits Magma: Only Third Time on Record

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jun 29, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (23) | 24

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists drilling a borehole deep into Iceland’s rocky crust to explore new methods of using geothermal energy hit a major roadblock on Thursday: Their drill ran into molten rock at a depth ...

Searching for an interglacial on Greenland

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Aug 24, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 1

The first season of the international drilling project NEEM (North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling) in north-western Greenland was completed at August 20th.

Locations of strain, slip identified in major earthquake fault

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Feb 15, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

Deep-sea drilling into one of the most active earthquake zones on the planet is providing the first direct look at the geophysical fault properties underlying some of the world's largest earthquakes and tsunamis.

Deep-ocean researchers target tsunami zone near Japan

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Jan 17, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Rice University Earth scientist Dale Sawyer and colleagues last month reported the discovery of a strong variation in the tectonic stresses in a region of the Pacific Ocean notorious for generating devastating earthquakes ...

Researchers probe undersea earthquake zone

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Oct 23, 2007 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 0

Over the next five years, an international team of scientists will drill deep into the Earth's crust off the shore of Japan to understand how undersea earthquakes are generated and to establish a series of permanent undersea ...

Scientists obtain rocks moving into seismogenic zone

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Oct 09, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

An international group of scientists aboard the Deep-Sea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), ...

International Greenland Ice Coring Effort Sets New Drilling Record in 2009

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Aug 26, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new international research effort on the Greenland ice sheet with the University of Colorado at Boulder as the lead U.S. institution set a record for single-season deep ice-core drilling ...

Energy From Hot Rocks

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 08, 2007 | 4.2 / 5 (16) | 0

Two UC Davis geologists are taking part in the Iceland Deep Drilling Project, an international effort to learn more about the potential of geothermal energy, or extracting heat from rocks.

USC awarded $3.9M for lab under the sea

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Feb 22, 2008 | not rated yet | 0

Think of bacteria eating rock. Now think of bacteria eating rock below the ocean floor. How about experimenting on bacteria in that rock 15,000 feet underwater?