
The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) was a multinational effort to explore and study the composition and structure of the Earth's
oceanic basins. ODP, which began in 1985, was the successor to the
Deep Sea Drilling Project initiated in 1968 by the United States. ODP was an international effort with contributions of Australia, Germany, France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the ESF Consortium for Ocean Drilling (ECOD) including 12 further countries. The program used the drillship ''
JOIDES Resolution'' on 110 expeditions (legs) to collect about 2,000 deep sea cores from major geological features located in the ocean basins of the world. Drilling discoveries led to further questions and hypotheses, as well as to new disciplines in earth sciences such as the field of
paleoceanography. In 2004 ODP transformed into the
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).
See also
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Project Mohole
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Deep Sea Drilling Program
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Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
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Allison Guyot
References
External links
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ODP Legacy Website
Marine geology
Projects established in 1985
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