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Nature 426, 492-494 (4 December 2003) | doi:10.1038/426492a
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Ocean drilling: Digging in
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- David Cyranoski is Nature's Asian-Pacific correspondent; Rex Dalton is Nature's US West Coast correspondent.
Abstract
A new ship and a wave of funding will let scientists drill where they have never been able to drill before, from near the North Pole to the rocks lying beneath Earth's crust. Rex Dalton and David Cyranoski report.
Late next summer, when the Arctic pack ice has receded, three icebreakers will head north from Siberia to escort a drilling ship into the treacherous Arctic Ocean. Cutting through ice floes, the convoy will launch one of the most ambitious ocean-drilling projects ever undertaken, in an attempt to find a missing piece of the puzzle of our planet's climatic past.
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