Project Mohole was an attempt in the early 1960s to drill through the Earth's crust to obtain samples of the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or Moho, the boundary...
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its lifting cradle using concepts developed with Global Marine (see Project Mohole) that used their precision stability equipment to keep the ship nearly...
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Walter Munk (section Project Mohole)
August 14, 2011. The National Academies. "Project Mohole: Commemorating the Accomplishments of Project Mohole 1961-2011". Archived from the original on...
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Project Mohole was an attempt to drill to the Moho from deep-ocean regions. After initial success in establishing deep-ocean drilling, the project suffered...
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two or more members were together. The most famous project to come out of AMSOC was the Project Mohole, whose goal was to drill into the Earth's mantle...
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Elizabeth Noble Shor (section Project Mohole)
biography of Hubbs for the National Academy of Sciences published in 1987. Project Mohole aimed to obtain a sample of the Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) by...
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title The Mohole Menace, is mentioned in A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. The real Project Mohole was an American project to sink a...
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Kola Superdeep Borehole (category Cancelled projects)
or removed. The United States had embarked on a similar project in 1957, dubbed Project Mohole, which was intended to penetrate the shallow crust under...
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George G. Shor (section Project Mohole)
Jolla, California. He began his career working with the Mohole Project, an ambitious project that attempted to drill to the Mohorovičić discontinuity...
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United States began Project Mohole, an ambitious attempt to drill through the Earth's crust into the Mohorovičić discontinuity. The project was discontinued...
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center of the planet and ending on the other side Scientific drilling Project Mohole, an ambitious attempt to drill through the Earth's crust into the Mohorovičić...
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fleet. The first offshore drillship was the CUSS 1 developed for the Mohole project to drill into the Earth's crust. As of June 2010, there were over 620...
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of four previous scientific ocean drilling programs: Project Mohole, Deep Sea Drilling Project, Ocean Drilling Program, and Integrated Ocean Drilling...
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consistence with other reports documented above. Oceans portal Science portal Project Mohole Ocean Drilling Program Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Glomar Challenger...
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Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle Deep Submergence Vehicle Alvin (DSV-2) Project Mohole MIR (submersible) Piccard 1956, p. 107. "First Trip to the Deepest Part...
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Ocean Drilling Program (category Projects established in 1985)
advanced several fields in Earth science. Ocean drilling first began with Project Mohole, a United States effort to drill into Earth's crust in 1957. At the...
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continental crust. The first attempt at mantle exploration, known as Project Mohole, was abandoned in 1966 after repeated failures and cost overruns. The...
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continental crust. The first attempt at mantle exploration, known as Project Mohole, was abandoned in 1966 after repeated failures and cost over-runs. The...
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Dicks his idea for a serial based on the real life drilling project known as Project Mohole. Budgetary limitations eventually led to the concept of the...
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Sciences (1965), deep sea exploration endeavors Project Mohole (1961) and the Deep Sea Drilling Project (1968–1983), the Ecosystems Analysis Program (1969)...
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San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (category Seismological observatories, organisations and projects)
101 m or 29,859 feet) Mohorovičić discontinuity Project Mohole Shiels, Maggie (December 5, 2003). "Project to drill into Earth fault". BBC News. Retrieved...
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July – Rolf Landauer first formulates Landauer's principle. April – Project Mohole begins. Francis Birch establishes Birch's law on compressional wave...
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of geology of the oceans. Hedberg chaired the Project Mohole committee from 1962-1963. Project Mohole was an ambitious attempt to drill through the Earth's...
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economical. As part of Project Mohole, in 1961 the drillship Cuss 1 was fitted with four steerable propellers. The Mohole project was attempting to drill...
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of Japan. Oceans portal Science portal Scientific drilling program Project Mohole Kola Superdeep Borehole Ocean Drilling Program German Continental Deep...
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Drilling Program Kola Superdeep Borehole Orbiting Carbon Observatory Project Mohole Serpentinite Terrestrial biological carbon cycle "People Browser". Deep...
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Seismographen". Gerlands Beiträge zur Geophysik. Vol. 15. pp. 201–214. Project Mohole krispiessens (29 January 2021). "Croatian earthquakes – Discovery of...
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Black Sea shipwrecks. He led the first test drillings for Project Mohole, and was project director from 1960-1962. Bascom was a consultant to the Advisory...
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also an amateur oceanographer, documented Project Mohole for LIFE Magazine. The Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP), established in June 1966, operated...
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for Project Mohole, an attempt to dig the world's deepest hole, in order to penetrate the Earth's crust and into the Earth's mantle. The word "mohole" was...
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