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The research team ended up drilling a record-breaking hole of 1,268 meters into the Earth’s mantle. They also had a 71% recovery rate, recovering 886 meters of rock samples from the Atlantis Massif.
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Scientists Drill Record-Breaking Core Near Earth’s Mantle, Unlocking Geological MysteriesThe recovered core offers a ... of similar deep mantle drilling missions remains uncertain, despite their scientific value. Continued exploration near the Atlantis Massif or other thin crustal ...
Last month, the ocean drilling ship, JOIDES Resolution ... and capable of supporting life. The oceanic core complex comprising Atlantis Massif was formed within the past 1.5-2 Million years ago at the ...
Aboard the ocean-drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution, they took a cylindrical core sample of the Atlantis Massif, an underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean west of the mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Analysis of the resulting rock core offers fresh clues about the evolution ... One of these areas is an underwater mountain called Atlantis Massif, located near a volcanically active region ...
Scientists are now closer to reconstructing how it whipped up early life, thanks to a massive 1.2-kilometer core that a ship ... called the Atlantis Massif, is home to a hot spring environment ...
This is just a small portion of a very, very long core sample drilled out of the ... in an area of the North Atlantic known as the Atlantis Massif, an underwater mountain that rises 14,000 feet ...
And the new rock core was drilled from one ... which used a crane to drill into an underwater mountain range called the Atlantis Massif, near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Apparently, the scientists ...
To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of ... an underwater mountain called the Atlantis Massif. On the south side of this massif ...
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