Sentences with phrase «sea drilling project»

This was some years after the discovery of methane clathrates by a team of geologists operating on the research ship, Challenger, during their Deep Sea Drilling Project.

This research evolved into the Deep Sea Drilling Project, which has sampled sea - floor sediment around the globe.

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This picture may be about to change in light of a study of deep - sea rocks and sediments led by John Parkes, a microbiologist at Cardiff University in the U.K.. By visiting oil - drilling projects at two sites in the Pacific in 2002, Parkes and colleagues obtained samples as deep as 400 meters beneath the seafloor.

In the first project of its kind, scientists are drilling deep into the bed of the fast - shrinking Dead Sea, searching for clues to past climate changes and other events that may have affected human history back through Biblical times and before.

As part of the Dead Sea Deep Drill Core Project, Goldstein and other colleagues drilled deep below the lakebed of the Dead Sea in 2010 and 2011 to pull up more than 1,300 feet (400 meters) of sediment in a long column — a record of sediment deposits spanning 200,000 years.