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Scientists return from first ever riser drilling operations in seismogenic zone
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Sep 04, 2009 |
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The Deep-sea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU successfully completed riser drilling operations on Aug. 31, for IODP Expedition 319, Stage 2 of the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE). The CHIKYU ...
Successful completion of first riser-drilling operations in earthquake zone
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Jul 30, 2009 |
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Despite harsh weather and ocean conditions, and complex geological characteristics of its drill site, the deep-sea drilling vessel CHIKYU, for the first time in the history of scientific ocean drilling, conducted riser-drilling ...
First riser-drilling research operations undertaken in Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone
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Jun 29, 2009 |
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Deepsea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU has resumed IODP drilling operations in the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone off the Kii Peninsula of Japan. The scientific drilling expedition's first target is located in water depths of 2,054 ...
Tahiti corals clue to 'dynamic' glaciers
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Apr 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossilised corals from tropical Tahiti show that the behaviour of ice sheets is much more volatile and dynamic than previously thought, a team led by Oxford University scientists has found.
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Deep-ocean researchers target tsunami zone near Japan
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Jan 17, 2008 |
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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 ...
Scientists obtain rocks moving into seismogenic zone
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Oct 09, 2009 |
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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), ...
'Frozen' natural gas discovered at unexpectedly shallow depths
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Aug 21, 2006 |
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An international team of research scientists has reported greater knowledge of how gas hydrate deposits form in nature, subsequent to a scientific ocean-drilling expedition off Canada's western coast.
Deep-sea drilling yields clues to mega-earthquakes
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Dec 12, 2007 |
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During a successful first expedition to one of the most active earthquake fault zones on the planet, scientists unearthed initial clues to the geophysical fault properties that may underlie devastating earthquakes and tsunamis.
Scientists obtain core samples from subsea fault system off Japan
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Feb 05, 2008 |
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The third expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program’s Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) completed its mission off the Kii Peninsula today. The expedition science party, 26 scientists representing ...
Researchers probe undersea earthquake zone
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Oct 23, 2007 |
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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 ...
Aurora Borealis breaks new grounds -- and old ice
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Nov 30, 2007 |
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It can crush ice sideways and stay precisely on station to an accuracy of a metre. It can drill a hole 1,000 metres deep into the seabed while floating above 5,000 metres of ocean and it can generate 55 megawatts of power. ...
Scientists launch deep-sea scientific drilling program to study volatile earthquake zone
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Sep 20, 2007 |
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Today, the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) gets underway, with the Japanese drilling vessel Chikyu departing from Shingu Port with scientists aboard, all ready to log, drill, sample, ...
Searching for an interglacial on Greenland
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Aug 24, 2009 |
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The first season of the international drilling project NEEM (North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling) in north-western Greenland was completed at August 20th.
Researchers identify technique that improves ACL surgery
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Surgeons from Hospital for Special Surgery in New York have identified a drilling technique that improves the outcome of surgery to reconstruct the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). The news will be presented during the annual ...
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