Scope
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) brings together scientists from different countries and scientific disciplines to conduct investigations of the Earth deep below the sea-floor. IODP gives scientists the opportunity to:
- recover geological records and rock samples;
- investigate and document ocean- and climate-change through time;
- explore the presence of primitive life below the seafloor;
- verify remote, near-seafloor observatories;
- gain understanding of how tectonic plates move and recycle themselves into the deep mantle
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