Ohmoto, working with Dr. Yumiko Watanabe, research associate, Penn State; Dr. Hiroaki Ikemi, former Penn State post doctoral fellow; and Dr. Simon R. Poulson, former Penn State doctoral student now a professor at University of Nevada, and Dr. Bruce E. Taylor, Geological Survey of Canada, report in the August 24 issue of Nature the isotopic, mineralogical and geochemical results of
drilling cores recovered by the Archaean Biosphere Drilling Project in the Pilbara Craton, Pilbara, Australia.
Not exact matches
During the six - week expedition, the team plan to
drill at 11 sites in water depths of 720 to 1,770 metres and
recover cores between 50 and 70 metres in length.
The Russians had
drilled to a depth of over 2,000 meters and
recovered an ice
core that went back 420,000 years.
After
drilling ice
core containing thousands of years of accumulated caribou dung (shown above), scientists
recovered the complete genome of a DNA virus and the partial genome of an RNA virus from frozen feces dated to 700 years old, they report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Field observations of microbes
recovered from deep
drill cores, deep mines, and the ocean floor, coupled with laboratory investigations, reveal that microbial life can exist at conditions of extreme temperatures (to above 110ºC) and pressures (to > 10,000 atmospheres) previous thought impossible.
Launch PSICAT program and create a sediment
core that would be
recovered at the
drill site portrayed in the animation that you created in the previous step.