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BASE (South Africa) 2021

Barberton Archean Surface Environments (BASE): Drilling precambrian sedimentary strata in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

HSPDP (Kenya) 2015

Documentary about the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP)

MexiDrill (Mexico) 2017

ICDP MexiDrill Project - Climate Clues Lake Chalco, Mexico

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Geodynamic Processes	Georesources	Geohazards	Environmental Change
Collisional Orogeny in the Scandinavian Caledonides (COSC-1)	Snake River Scientific Drilling (HOTSPOT) in Idaho	San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD)	Lake Bosumtwi (Ghana)	Lake Malawi (Malawi)
Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling (CCSD) in Donghai			Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure (Virginia, USA)	Lake El’gygytgyn (Russia, Sibiria)
Fennoscandia Arctic Russia – Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR-DEEP), Northwest Russia			Dead Sea Deep Drilling (Israel)	Hominin Sites and Paleolakes (HSPDP), Kenya and Ethiopia
Barberton Drilling Project – Peering into the Cradle of Life			Lake Malawi (Malawi)	Scientific Collaboration On Past Speciation Conditions in Ohrid (SCOPSCO), Macedonia
Mallik 2002 Gas Hydrate Production Research Well			PALEOVAN Lake Van, Turkey	Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala
			Lake Qinghai, China	Lake Titicaca, Bolivia/ Peru

Scientific Drilling Volume 32	October 2023	Scientific Drilling Volume 16	November 2013
Scientific Drilling Volume 31	November 2022	Scientific Drilling Volume 15	March 2013
Scientific Drilling Volume 30	February 2022	Scientific Drilling Volume 14	September 2012
Scientific Drilling Volume 29	April 2021	Scientific Drilling Volume 13	March 2012
Scientific Drilling Volume 28	December 2020	Scientific Drilling Volume 12	September 2011
Scientific Drilling Volume 27	May 2020	Scientific Drilling Volume 11	March 2011
Scientific Drilling Volume 26	December 2019	Scientific Drilling Volume 10	September 2010
Scientific Drilling Volume 25	June 2019	Scientific Drilling Volume 9	March 2010
Scientific Drilling Volume 24	October 2018	Scientific Drilling Volume 8	September 2009
Scientific Drilling Volume 23	November 2017	Scientific Drilling Volume 7	March 2009
Scientific Drilling Volume 22	May 2017	Scientific Drilling Volume 6	July 2008
Scientific Drilling Volume 21	August 2016	Scientific Drilling Volume 5	September 2007
Scientific Drilling Volume 20	December 2015	Scientific Drilling Volume 4	March 2007
Scientific Drilling Volume 19	May 2015	Scientific Drilling Volume 3	September 2006
Scientific Drilling Volume 18	May 2015	Scientific Drilling Volume 2	March 2006
Scientific Drilling Volume 17	December 2014	Scientific Drilling Volume 1	September 2005