Drilling Projects By
World
Geological Time
Climate & Ecosystems
Sustainable Georesources
Natural Hazards
Asia
- Maps of Asia
- Boso Peninsula (Japan)
- Chelungpu (Taiwan)
- Dead Sea (Israel)
- Donghai (China)
- Hanoi (Vietnam)
- Koyna (India)
- Lake Baikal (Russia)
- Lake Biwa (Japan)
- Lake El'gygytgyn (Russia)
- Lake Issyk-Kul (Kyrgyzstan)
- Lake Nam Co (China)
- Lake Qinghai (China)
- Lake Towuti (Indonesia)
- Lake Van (Turkey)
- Mutnovsky Volcano (Russia)
- Nankai Trough (Japan)
- NE Japan
- North Anatolian Fault (Turkey)
- Oman
- Ryukyu Islands (Japan)
- Songliao Basin (China)
- Songliao - MW-DUL (China)
- Unzen Volcano (Japan)
- Yangtze Craton (China)
Oman Ophiolite Drilling Project
Yielding a “Rosetta Stone” of complex tectonic settings
The Samail ophiolite is composed of igneous crust and upper mantle formed at a submarine spreading center, via processes very similar to those at mid-ocean ridges today. Drilling will provide key data on the processes of melt extraction from the mantle, igneous accretion of oceanic crust, and hydrothermal modification of that crust. Drilling will also investigate present day alteration processes, their relationship to the deep biosphere, and their potential for acceleration to achieve carbon capture and storage via in situ mineral carbonation.
