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Every once in awhile there will be external blogging from the ship by education officer, Amy West. Here is a snippet of the first one:Going on a Rock Cruise Imagine two, 60-mile-thick slabs of rock...
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Houston, we've landed on….Boninite
Our entire mission is dependent on seismic data and our interpretation of it. We can be wildly off, or spot on with what we think we’ll encounter during drilling. It’s a highly educated guess, but what...
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Logging without an axe
Though structural geologists use our smaller sample of cored rock to form the larger picture of what its surrounding rock may look like, confirmation about the hole’s physical and chemical traits comes...
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From rainclouds to silver linings
We’ve been hanging by a thread for some time now. read more
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Should We Stay or Should We Go?
There comes a time toward the end of the expedition where things can spin on a dime from having lots of time to not having enough. After the second bit change we were bringing up loads of rocks-...
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Noah's Ark
As pointed out to those who step aboard the JR, animals are all over the boat. You just have to look.If you walk along the catwalk to the doghouse, you might overhear the crew talking about Bigfoot...
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Expedition 352 is a wrap! Bon Voyage à Tous
We have made it to mountainous Keelung, and everyone on board was greeted by pretty views surrounding the port and dancers and drummers performing a traditional Chinese dance. Although everyone was...
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