Progress and Priorities in Ocean Drilling: In Search of Earth's Past and Future

by Ocean Studies Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Engineering National Academies of Sciences

Research supported by scientific ocean drilling has fundamentally transformed our understanding of the planet with key contributions to the discovery and theory of plate tectonics; the formation and destruction of ocean crust; the reconstruction of extreme greenhouse and icehouse climates; the identification of major extinctions; and the discovery of a diverse community of microbes living deep ocean seafloor. With the retirement in 2024 of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309713382
• ISBN13: 9780309713382
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 134 Pages