ICDP Country Profile
International Continental Scientific Drilling Program 2024-05-09
United Kingdom
| ICDP Membership: | since 2012 |
| National Program: | ICDP UK |
| Reponsible Institutions: | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) |
| Panel Members: |
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International ICDP Proposals with Participation from United Kingdom
Column 'Individuals involved' entails Principal Investigators (PIs),
Science Team Members (STM), Workshop Participants (WP)
with an affiliation at an institution in United Kingdom
See also below, Subreport 'Submitted Proposals
with Drill Site(s) in United Kingdom'.
| # | Proposal Name | Proposal ID | Individuals involved |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Probing the Lithosphere Under Samoa: A 2500-meter drill core to explore hotspot-trench interactions, continental recycling, the deep biosphere, and geothermal resources (PLUS) | ICDP-2023/13 preliminary |
3 | |
| 2 | Deep-time Arctic climate archives: High-resolution coring of Svalbard?s sedimentary record (SVALCLIME) | ICDP-2023/12 preliminary |
2 | |
| 3 | An urban energy laboratory for monitoring and better understanding of subsurface processes related to low-enthalpy geothermal heat production (UrbEnLab) | ICDP-2023/08 workshop |
3 | |
| 4 | ICDP Eifel: Follow the CO2 - Drilling into an actively degassing intraplate volcano underlain by a silicic-carbonatitic intrusion | ICDP-2023/07 workshop |
2 | |
| 5 | The Fucino sedimentary succession: the longest and continuous terrestrial archive in the Mediterranean area recording the last five millions of years of the Earth system history (MEME) | ICDP-2023/06 workshop |
8 | |
| 6 | Colorado Plateau Coring Project 2: A continuous record of Triassic-Jurassic environmental change (CPCP-2) | ICDP-2023/04 full |
1 | |
| 7 | New Zealand fjord sediment records of Southern Hemisphere climate change and carbon cycling | ICDP-2022/08 workshop |
7 | |
| 8 | Drilling an alkaline-carbonatite complex to understand how fluid-rock interaction influences rare earth element mineralisation, groundwater and deep life (REEDRILL) | ICDP-2022/06 workshop |
15 | |
| 9 | Gabon and Oxygenation of Earth - Drilling Early Earth Project (GOE-DEEP) | ICDP-2022/05 workshop |
2 | |
| 10 | Connections Among Life, geo-Dynamics and Eruptions in a Rifting Arc caldera (CALDERA) | ICDP-2022/04 workshop |
7 | |
| 11 | Weihe Basin Drilling Project (Phase I) Mio-Pleistocene Asian hydroclimate variability and dynamics | ICDP-2022/02 full |
1 | |
| 12 | The Deep Dust Drilling Project: Earth-System Responses to the Penultimate Icehouse Collapse and Greenhouse Intensification | ICDP-2022/01 full |
1 | |
| 13 | New Caledonia Ophiolite Land-to-Sea Drilling Project | ICDP-2021/17 preliminary |
1 | |
| 14 | Understanding the architecture of rare earth element mineralisation in alkaline-carbonatite complexes - Drilling the ?carbonatite critical zone? (DrillAlkCarb) | ICDP-2021/14 preliminary |
5 | |
| 15 | Interaction between life, rifting and caldera tectonics In Okataina (INTERACTION) | ICDP-2021/13 preliminary |
3 | |
| 16 | The Lake Victoria Drilling Project (LVDP): Unraveling the climate and environmental history of the world?s most populated lake | ICDP-2021/11 workshop |
15 | |
| 17 | Deep Drilling in the Turkana Basin (DDTB) Exploring the link between environmental factors and hominin evolution | ICDP-2021/10 workshop |
9 | |
| 18 | Drilling into Krafla magma - Krafla Magma Testbed | ICDP-2021/05 full |
5 | |
| 19 | Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Degrees Celsius (SWAIS 2C) | ICDP-2021/03 full |
11 | |
| 20 | NZMaar: Getting to the Bottom of Lake Pupuke | ICDP-2020/14 preliminary |
1 | |
| 21 | Afar Dallol Drilling - ONset of sedimentary processes in an active rift basin (ADD-ON) | ICDP-2020/11 workshop |
5 | |
| 22 | PlioWest: Drilling Pliocene Lakes in Western North America | ICDP-2020/09 workshop |
1 | |
| 23 | Coring Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum transects, mid-Atlantic U.S. Coastal Plain: Constraining timing and cause of carbon injection and ecosystem response (USA Margin PETM) | ICDP-2020/08 workshop |
24 | |
| 24 | The Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project (TSDP): Unravelling 10 Million Years of African Environmental Evolution | ICDP-2020/06 full |
12 | |
| 25 | The Nam Co Drilling Project, Tibet: A one million year sedimentary record from the third pole | ICDP-2020/05 full |
5 | |
| 26 | Drilling the Ivrea-Verbano zonE (DIVE) | ICDP-2020/04 full |
3 | |
| 27 | Volcanic Forcing and Paleogene Climate Change (PVOLC) | ICDP-2020/03 full |
9 | |
| 28 | LIBRE - Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavor | ICDP-2019/14 workshop |
2 | |
| 29 | Cornell University Deep Geothermal Test Borehole: Scientific Workshop Proposal | ICDP-2019/11 workshop |
1 | |
| 30 | Drilling Active Faults in Northern Europe (DAFNE) | ICDP-2019/08 full |
2 | |
| 31 | The Bushveld Complex Drilling Project (BVDP) | ICDP-2019/04 full |
4 | |
| 32 | Barberton Archean Surface Environments (BASE), Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt | ICDP-2019/03 full |
3 | |
| 33 | Integrated Understanding of the Early Jurassic Earth System and Timescale (JET) | ICDP-2018/22 full |
1 | |
| 34 | Neogene environmental and geological evolution of the Central American bridge between two continents and two oceans (NICA-BRIDGE) | ICDP-2018/17 workshop |
2 | |
| 35 | Lake Tanganyika Drilling: Addressing World-Class Scientific Questions In Paleoclimatology, Tectonics And Evolutionary Ecology In Africa's Oldest Lake | ICDP-2018/16 workshop |
19 | |
| 36 | ICDP Workshop on the Colorado Coring Project II and the Junggar Basin Early Jurassic: Low to High Latitude Transect of Environmental, Climatic, and Biotic Evolution | ICDP-2018/14 workshop |
8 | |
| 37 | Deep Dust: Probing Continental Climate of the Late Paleozoic Icehouse-Greenhouse Transition | ICDP-2018/13 workshop |
3 | |
| 38 | Investigating Miocene Mediterranean-Atlantic Exchange (IMMAGE) | ICDP-2018/09 full |
5 | |
| 39 | Geological Research through Integrated Neoproterozoic Drilling: The Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition | ICDP-2018/08 full |
16 | |
| 40 | A Strainmeter Array Along the Alto Tiberina Fault System, Central Italy | ICDP-2018/05 full |
1 | |
| 41 | Drilling Workshop: Archean Surface Environments, Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt | ICDP-2017/14 workshop |
4 | |
| 42 | Drilling Investigation of Seismogenic Crust in Oklahoma (DISCO) | ICDP-2017/13 workshop |
3 | |
| 43 | Newberry Deep Drilling Project (NDDP), Workshop Proposal | ICDP-2017/11 workshop |
2 | |
| 44 | Nam Co | ICDP-2017/10 workshop |
7 | |
| 45 | Collisional Orogeny in the Scandinavian Caledonides (COSC-2): Drilling the main Caledonian décollement and into the basement of the Fennoscandian Shield | ICDP-2017/04 full |
10 | |
| 46 | Trans-Amazon Drilling Project | ICDP-2017/01 full |
3 | |
| 47 | Drilling the continental crust into the Moho transition zone (Ivrea-Verbano zone, Italy) | ICDP-2016/17 workshop |
5 | |
| 48 | Scientific Exploration of Induced SeisMicity and Stress (SEISMS) | ICDP-2016/13 workshop |
2 | |
| 49 | Campi Flegrei 2017 | ICDP-2016/12 workshop |
1 | |
| 50 | Investigating Miocene Mediterranean-Atlantic Gateway Exchange (IMMAGE) | ICDP-2016/12 workshop |
4 | |
| 51 | Onshore-Offshore Drilling and Sampling to Understand Freshwater Resources along the New England Continental Shelf | ICDP-2016/11 workshop |
5 | |
| 52 | Drilling the Eger Rift: Magmatic fluids driving the earthquake swarms and the deep biosphere | ICDP-2016/05 full |
2 | |
| 53 | Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys (DOVE) | ICDP-2016/04 full |
2 | |
| 54 | HAITI-DRILL - Active Haitian Fault drilling | ICDP-2015/18 preliminary |
2 | |
| 55 | Deep Life Drilling in the Death Valley Rift Zone | ICDP-2015/17 workshop |
1 | |
| 56 | The Lake CHAd Deep DRILLing Project (CHADRILL) - Unravelling 10 Million Years of environmental and climatic changes in Africa: Implications for human migration and deep life. | ICDP-2015/12 workshop |
6 | |
| 57 | ICDP Workshop Proposal: Continental Drilling of the Cretaceous-Paleogene Larsen basin, Antarctica | ICDP-2015/09 workshop |
20 | |
| 58 | Krafla Magma Drilling Project | ICDP-2015/08 full |
7 | |
| 59 | ICDP SUSTAIN Program at Surtsey : A New Drill Core at Surtsey Volcano: A Natural Laboratory for Time-Lapse Characterization of Hydrothermal Seawater and Microbial Interactions with Basaltic Tephra | ICDP-2015/07 full |
2 | |
| 60 | Integrated Understanding of the Early Jurassic Earth System and Timescale (JET) | ICDP-2015/04 full |
43 | |
| 61 | Tanzania Onshore Paleogene Integrated Coring (TOPIC) | ICDP-2015/03 full |
12 | |
| 62 | Quaternary Tertiary Tropics - Colônia Sediment Archive Drilling Project QUE COISA | ICDP-2014/17 workshop |
1 | |
| 63 | Multi-Well Deep Underground Laboratory (MW-DUL) in Songliao Basin | ICDP-2014/15 workshop |
3 | |
| 64 | Origin of vein-type ore deposits | ICDP-2014/14 workshop |
3 | |
| 65 | Crossing into the Hypersolidus Frontier: The Krafla Magma Drilling Project (KMDP) | ICDP-2014/12 workshop |
7 | |
| 66 | The North Sea Basin As a Recorder for Key Cenozoic Transitions: Climate Development, Fluvial Response and Ecosystem Change in a Subsidung Basin | ICDP-2014/09 workshop |
12 | |
| 67 | DeepCHALLA: two glacial-interglacial cycles (ca. 250,000 years) of climate and ecosystem dynamics on the East African equator | ICDP-2014/06 full |
7 | |
| 68 | MEXIDRILL: The Basin of Mexico Drilling Program | ICDP-2014/05 full |
6 | |
| 69 | Chicxulub: Drilling the K-Pg Impact Crater | ICDP-2014/04 full |
11 | |
| 70 | Scientific Drilling in the Samail Ophiolite, Sultanate of Oman | ICDP-2014/03 full |
30 | |
| 71 | The Coulman High Project?Drilling beneath the Ross Ice Shelf to understand Antarctic Ice Sheet sensitivity to climatic, tectonic, and environmental forcing in a high CO2 world | ICDP-2014/02 full |
6 | |
| 72 | A Bushveld Scientific Drilling Project (workshop proposal) | ICDP-2013/12 workshop |
4 | |
| 73 | Accelerating Neoproterozoic Research through Scientific Drilling | ICDP-2013/11 workshop |
6 | |
| 74 | Tanzania Onshore Paleogene Integrated Coring (TOPIC) | ICDP-2013/07 workshop |
10 | |
| 75 | The Towuti Drilling Project: Paleoenvironments, Biological Evolution, and Geomicrobiology of a Tropical Pacific Lake | ICDP-2013/02 full |
1 | |
| 76 | Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys | ICDP-2012/12 workshop |
2 | |
| 77 | Japan Beyond-Brittle Project (JBBP) - Scientific drilling to demonstrate a feasibility of the engineered geothermal system in ductile zones ? | ICDP-2012/08 workshop |
2 | |
| 78 | Mochras revisited: a new global standard for Early Jurassic Earth history | ICDP-2012/06 workshop |
4 | |
| 79 | A Workshop to plan drilling a 5 km deep well into the root zone of an analog to a black smoker on land at Reykjanes, Iceland | ICDP-2012/04 workshop |
1 | |
| 80 | Co-ordinated Scientific Drilling in the Beaufort Sea: Addressing past, present and future changes in Arctic terrestrial and marine systems | ICDP-2012/03 workshop |
8 | |
| 81 | International Drilling to Recover Aquifer Sands (IDRAs) and Arsenic Contaminated Groundwater in Asia | ICDP-2012/01 full |
1 | |
| 82 | Glacial-interglacial (150,000-yr) climate and ecosystem history on the East African equator, from the sediment record of crater Lake Challa near Mt. Kilimanjaro | ICDP-2011/13 workshop |
3 | |
| 83 | A workshop for deep drilling of the Chalco Basin, Valley of Mexico | ICDP-2011/08 workshop |
3 | |
| 84 | Oman Ophiolite Drilling Project, Workshop Proposal | ICDP-2011/07 workshop |
3 | |
| 85 | Mochras revisited - a new global standard for Early Jurassic Earth history | ICDP-2011/06 preliminary |
2 | |
| 86 | Collisional Orogeny in the Scandinavian Caledonides (COSC) | ICDP-2011/03 full |
6 | |
| 87 | Deep Fault Drilling Project (DFDP), Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Phase 2 - conditions at 1.5 km depth | ICDP-2011/01 full |
21 | |
| 88 | Seymour Island-Marambio Drilling Project (SIMDP): Drilling for the Cretaceous and Paleogene climate history, James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula | ICDP-2010/13 workshop |
7 | |
| 89 | Recovering uncompromised samples of aquifer sands with in-situ groundwater from up to 300-m depth in South and Southeast Asia | ICDP-2010/10 workshop |
1 | |
| 90 | Filling the Triassic Geochronologic Gap: A Continuous Cored Record of Continental Environmental Change in Western North America | ICDP-2010/05 full |
1 | |
| 91 | The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): Using Scientific Drilling to understand the Paleoclimate Context of Human Evolution | ICDP-2010/04 full |
6 | |
| 92 | HOTSPOT: The Snake River Scientific Drilling Project - Tracking the Yellowstone Plume Through Space and Time | ICDP-2010/00 full |
2 | |
| 93 | Glacial-interglacial (150,000-year) climate history on the East African equator, extracted from the sediment record of a crater lake on Mt. Kilimanjaro | ICDP-2009/16 preliminary |
2 | |
| 94 | Drilling the SE Iberia lacustrine record: a paleoclimate sensor for the last 7 Myr. | ICDP-2009/15 preliminary |
1 | |
| 95 | Climate evolution in Central Asia during the past few million years: A case study from Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgystan | ICDP-2009/13 workshop |
3 | |
| 96 | A Tale of Two Islands: The LAKENZ Drilling Project | ICDP-2009/12 preliminary |
6 | |
| 97 | Collisional Orogeny in the Scandinavian Caledonides (COSC) | ICDP-2009/11 workshop |
3 | |
| 98 | Postglacial Fault Drilling Project (PFDP) | ICDP-2009/10 workshop |
2 | |
| 99 | The Dead Sea as a Global Paleo-environmental, Tectonic and Seismic Archive | ICDP-2009/05 full |
1 | |
| 100 | Scientific Collaboration On Past Speciation Conditions in Lake Ohrid (SCOPSCO) | ICDP-2009/03 full |
7 | |
| 101 | Peering into the Cradle of Life: Scientific Drilling in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa | ICDP-2009/01 full |
9 | |
| 102 | High to ultra-high resolution sedimentary records - Testing the findings of the IPCC Report using Multi-Platform Drilling ? | ICDP-2008/15 workshop |
9 | |
| 103 | Deep Fault Drilling Project (DFDP) ? Alpine Fault, NZ: Active deformation processes in the seismogenic zone of a major transpressional plate boundary fault | ICDP-2008/11 workshop |
3 | |
| 104 | ICDP Workshop on the Colorado Plateau Coring Project: 100 Million Years of Climatic, Tectonic, and Biotic Evolution in Continental Cores | ICDP-2008/10 workshop |
1 | |
| 105 | Evolutionary, Geological, and Environmental History of Lake Ohrid (EGEL) | ICDP-2008/09 workshop |
1 | |
| 106 | Directions in Deep Biosphere Research | ICDP-2008/08 workshop |
6 | |
| 107 | Campi Flegrei caldera Deep Drilling Project (CFDDP) | ICDP-2008/05 full |
5 | |
| 108 | Continental Scientific Drilling Project of Cretaceous Songliao Basin: Continuous High-resolution Terrestrial Archives and Greenhouse Climate Change | ICDP-2008/03 full |
3 | |
| 109 | Peering into the Cradle of Life: Scientific Drilling in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa | ICDP-2008/02 full |
1 | |
| 110 | Visual Core Description ? Evaluation, Design, and Implementation | ICDP-2007/21 operational |
2 | |
| 111 | HOTSPOT: The Snake River Scientific Drilling Project - Tracking the Yellowstone Plume Through Space and Time. | ICDP-2007/14 preliminary |
2 | |
| 112 | Scientific Drilling for Human Origins: An ICDP Workshop proposal to investigate critical time intervals in hominin-paleoenvironmental history | ICDP-2007/10 workshop |
2 | |
| 113 | Drilling to Decipher Long-Term Sea-Level Changes and Effects: A Joint JOI/ICDP/DOSECC/IODP/CHEVRON Workshop | ICDP-2007/07 workshop |
1 | |
| 114 | Potrok Aike Maar Lake Sediment Archive Drilling Project (PASADO) | ICDP-2007/01 full |
2 | |
| 115 | Drilling at Campi Flegrei Caldera (Southern Italy). | ICDP-2006/12 workshop |
3 | |
| 116 | Joint IODP/ICDP drilling of the Chicxulub impact crater | ICDP-2006/05 workshop |
6 | |
| 117 | Full Proposal for Drilling - Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR-DEEP) | ICDP-2006/01 full |
10 | |
| 118 | Intermediate Depth Drilling of the Snake River Plain: Tracking the Yellowstone Hotspot Through Space and Time. | ICDP-2005/13 workshop |
3 | |
| 119 | Potrok Aike Lake Sediment Archive Drilling Project, southernmost Argentina (PASADO) | ICDP-2005/09 workshop |
4 | |
| 120 | Scientific Drilling of the Magma-Hydrothermal Connection, Kamchatka, Russia | ICDP-2005/08 workshop |
1 | |
| 121 | International Planning Workshop for Scientific Drilling - Archaean-Palaeoprotorezoic Transition: The Emerging Modern Earth System | ICDP-2005/04 workshop |
5 | |
| 122 | ICDP Information Management for Offshore Drilling: Lomonosov Ridge, Arctic Ocean | ICDP-2004/18 full |
1 | |
| 123 | Drilling the Eger Rift | ICDP-2004/12 workshop |
2 | |
| 124 | Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala) Drilling Project | ICDP-2004/03 full |
2 | |
| 125 | Anatomy of an Impact Basin. Scientific Drilling of the Sudbury Structure, Ontario, Canada. | ICDP-2003/07 workshop |
2 | |
| 126 | Scientific Drilling at Qinghai Lake on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: High-resolution paleoenvironmental records of eastern Asia and their significance for global change. | ICDP-2003/03 workshop |
2 | |
| 127 | Exploring the African-European suture at depth: Orava Deep Drilling Project (ODDP), Poland | ICDP-2003/02 workshop |
2 | |
| 128 | Scientific Drilling at the Bosumtwi Impact Structure, Ghana, West Africa | ICDP-2002/08 full |
4 | |
| 129 | Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP): Request for ICDP support of Science Planning Meetings and an International Science Workshop to conclude Phase I of IDDP. | ICDP-2002/05 workshop |
2 | |
| 130 | ICDP Workshop on Scientific Drilling in Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala). | ICDP-2002/04 workshop |
2 | |
| 131 | GLAD800 Drilling in Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala): A Lowland Neotropical. Record of Climate Change Spanning Multiple Glacial-to-Interglacial Cycles. | ICDP-2001/11 preliminary |
1 | |
| 132 | Workshop in Preparation of a Full Proposal for Scientific Drilling at the Bosumtwi Impact Structure, Ghana, West Africa. | ICDP-2001/04 workshop |
3 | |
| 133 | Scientific Drilling in Lake Malawi (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique), East African Rift System. | ICDP-2000/06 full |
2 | |
| 134 | Scientific Drilling in Hawaii: Physics and Chemistry of Mantle Plumes. | ICDP-1996/18 preliminary |
6 | |
| 135 | Scientific Drilling in Lake Malawi (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique), East African Rift System. | ICDP-1996/11 preliminary |
1 | |
| 136 | Scientific Drilling at the KT-age Chicxulub Crater: Probing the Link between Impact and Global Change. | ICDP-1996/08 preliminary |
1 | |
| 137 | A Proposal to Conduct a San Andreas Fault Zone Drilling Pilot Project at Parkfield. | ICDP-1996/04 preliminary |
4 | |
| 137 Proposals | International ICDP Proposals with Participation from United Kingdom | Total: | 692 persons |
Training Course Participants from United Kingdom:
Participants comprised students, scientists at all career stages, technical staff.
| Date | Location | Participants from United Kingdom |
# | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | in Germany | 0 | 1 | |
| 2018 | in Germany | 4 | 2 | |
| 2018 | in Germany | 3 | 3 | |
| 2017 | in Germany | 1 | 4 | |
| 2016 | in Germany | 3 | 5 | |
| 2015 | in Germany | 5 | 6 | |
| 2015 | in North Macedonia | 4 | 7 | |
| 2014 | in New Zealand | 6 | 8 | |
| 2012 | in U.S.A. | 3 | 9 | |
| 2011 | in Germany | 2 | 10 | |
| 2010 | in Germany | 2 | 11 | |
| 2009 | in Sweden | 0 | 12 | |
| 2008 | in Germany | 3 | 13 | |
| 2007 | in Germany | 2 | 14 | |
| 2006 | in Germany | 0 | 15 | |
| 2004 | in Ghana | 0 | 16 | |
| 2003 | in Japan | 0 | 17 | |
| 2001 | in Mexico | 0 | 18 | |
| 2001 | in P.R. China | 0 | 19 | |
| 1999 | in U.S.A. | 0 | 20 | |
| 1998 | in Germany | 1 | 21 | |
| United Kingdom | Total Number of Training Course Participants: | 39 persons |
Submitted Proposals with Drill Site(s) in United Kingdom:
Only proposals approved by the ICDP panels are shown.
Column 'Individuals involved' entails Principal Investigators (PIs),
Science Team Members (STM), Workshop Participants (WP)
with an affiliation at an institution in United Kingdom
| # | Proposal Name | Proposal
ID (Type) |
Individuals involved |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Integrated Understanding of the Early Jurassic Earth System and Timescale (JET) | ICDP-2018/22 (full) |
1 | |
| 2 | Integrated Understanding of the Early Jurassic Earth System and Timescale (JET) | ICDP-2015/04 (full) |
43 | |
| 3 | Mochras revisited: a new global standard for Early Jurassic Earth history | ICDP-2012/06 (workshop) |
4 | |
| 4 | Mochras revisited - a new global standard for Early Jurassic Earth history | ICDP-2011/06 (preliminary) |
2 | |
|
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4 submitted Proposals with Drill Site(s) in United Kingdom | Persons involved: | 50 scientists |