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The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) was an international cooperative effort to explore and study the composition and structure of the earth's ocean basins. ODP, which began in 1985, was the direct successor to the highly successful Deep Sea Drilling Project initiated in 1968 by the United States.






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Joides Resolution Odp
The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) was an international cooperative effort to explore and study the composition and structure of the earth's ocean basins. ODP, which began in 1985, was the direct successor to the highly successful Deep Sea Drilling Project initiated in 1968 by the United States. ODP was a truly international effort with contributions of Australia, Germany, France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the ESF Consortium for Ocean Drilling (ECOD) including 12 further countries. The program used the drillship Joides Resolution (JOIDES=Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling) on 110 expeditions (Legs) to collect about 2000 deep sea cores from major geological features located in the ocean basins of the world. Drilling discoveries led to further questions and hypotheses, as well as to new disciplines in earth sciences such as the field of paleoceanography
Paleoceanography

Paleoceanography is the study of the history of the oceans in the geology past with regard to circulation, chemistry, biology, geology and patterns of sedimentation....
. In 2004 ODP transformed into the: 'Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program is an international marine research drilling program dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of the Earth by monitoring and sampling subseafloor environments....
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  • Project Mohole
    Project Mohole

    Project Mohole was an ambitious attempt to drill through the Earth's Crust into the Mohorovicic discontinuity, and to provide an Earth science complement to the high profile Space Race....
  • Deep Sea Drilling Program
    Deep Sea Drilling Program

    The Deep Sea Drilling Project was anocean drilling project running from 1968 to 1983. The program is successful as evidenced by the data and publications that have resulted from it and is supported by Texas A&M....
  • Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
    Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

    The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program is an international marine research drilling program dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of the Earth by monitoring and sampling subseafloor environments....
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