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For more than 30 years, the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) has sent hundreds of scientists out from their universities and laboratories to the far corners of the world’s oceans in search of sediments and rocks that tell the story of Earth’s restless past. The ancient ocean depths, long thought to be a barren and unchanging primordial environment, have yielded their secrets of how our planet’s powerful yet delicate ecosystem functions.
The Ocean Drilling Program constitutes one part of a systematic geologic investigation of the Earth that has been ongoing since the eighteenth century. It is only in the past thirty years that scientific ocean drilling conducted by ODP and its predecessor, the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) has taken center stage as one of the main contributors to our understanding of the system that drives Earth’s evolution. ODP focuses its inquiry into the physics, chemistry, and biology of the Earth’s processes using two basic data collection strategies: (a)...
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Reuss, J.C. (2009). Ocean Drilling Program (Odp). In: Gornitz, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4411-3_156
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