Drilling Projects By
Climate & Ecosystems
Sustainable Georesources
Natural Hazards
World
Geological Time
- Map of North and Central America
- Bighorn Basin (U.S.A.)
- Blue Hole (Belize)
- Cape Cod (U.S.A.)
- Chesapeake Bay (U.S.A.)
- Chicxulub (Mexico)
- Chicxulub 2 (Mexico)
- Colorado (U.S.A.)
- Death Valley (U.S.A.)
- Hawai'i (U.S.A.)
- Koolau (U.S.A.)
- Lake Chalco (Mexico)
- Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala)
- Lead (U.S.A.)
- Long Valley (U.S.A.)
- Mallik (Canada)
- Newberry (U.S.A.)
- New Jersey (U.S.A.)
- Oklahoma (U.S.A.)
- San Andreas Fault (U.S.A.)
- Sevier Basin (U.S.A.)
- Snake River (U.S.A.)
- Sudbury (Canada)
Hawai'i Scientific Drilling Project
Physics and Chemistry of Mantle Plumes
Alteration,
Ar,
Basalts,
Calcium,
Clay Minerals,
Cooling History,
Deep Biosphere,
DOSECC,
Drilling,
Geochemistry,
Geophysics,
Glass,
Hawaii,
Hf Isotopes,
High Resolution,
HSDP,
ICDP-1996/18,
Isotopes,
Major Elements,
Mantle Plume,
Mauna Kea,
Metamorphism,
Microorganism,
Microprobe,
Ne,
Neodymium,
Noble Gases,
Oxygen Isotope Analyses,
Palagonites,
Palagonitization,
Paleointensity,
Pb-isotopes,
Periodicity,
Petrology,
Plate Tectonics,
Recycling,
Smectite,
Strontium,
Submarine Basaltic Glass,
Sulphur,
Thermal Regimes,
U.S.A.,
Vitrophyres,
Volcanic Systems,
Volcanics,
Volcano,
Volcanology,
Zeolites,
The Hawai'i Scientific Drilling Project (HSDP) has completed its first phase of core drilling into the Mauna Kea Volcano at a depth of 3,109 m in September 1999. These are the deepest core samples obtained from any Hawai'ian volcano and the suite of rock samples recovered may be the longest continuous stratigraphic record from any ocean island volcano.
The primary scientific objective of the HSDP is to gain a better understanding of the geochemical and geophysical processes within mantle plumes forming "midplate" volcanoes such as Hawai'i, the Galapagos, and the Yellowstone volcanic system.
