Hole Drilled to Bottom of Earth's Crust, Breakthrough to Mantle Looms

LiveScience ^ | April 7, 2005 | Robert Roy Britt

[beezdotcom]

Seeking the elusive 'Moho'

Scientist said this week they had drilled into the lower section of Earth's crust for the first time and were poised to break through to the mantle in coming years.

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) seeks the elusive "Moho," a boundary formally known as the Mohorovicic discontinuity. It marks the division between Earth's brittle outer crust and the hotter, softer mantle.

The depth of the Moho varies. This latest effort, which drilled 4,644 feet (1,416 meters) below the ocean seafloor, appears to have been 1,000 feet off to the side of where it needed to be to pierce the Moho, according to one reading of seismic data used to map the crust's varying thickness.

The new hole, which took nearly eight weeks to drill, is the third deepest ever made. The rock collection brought back to the surface is providing new information about the planet's composition.

[macamadamia]

"They need to rename it the Integrated Drilling-In-Ocean Test"


Ha! IDIOT seeks MOHO. Sounds like a trashy singles ad.

[mdmathis6]

Is that the movie in which a male planet mates with Mother Earth and she has babies....?(sorry tasteless joke ping!)

[YouGoTexasGirl]

If they were off, wish they would have hit under Saudi Arabia or Iraq's oil fields, ha!

[don-o]

Now that's funny. I don't care who you are, that's funny!

[BipolarBob]

My friends deep inside the earth say this is a bad idea.

[beyond the sea]

Yeah, but it's continuously replentished by Michael Moore's @$$ and Teddy Kennedy's alchohol binge farts.

ROFL ........ and Hillary's mouth.

[BansheeBill]

They tried this in 1961: Project Mohole

[procrustes]

How about this guy's plan?

NASA Meets Hollywood: Real Mission Proposed to Earth's Core


http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/nasa_core_030514.html

[Constantine XIII]

LOL, that was a terrible movie.

[microgood]

I always wondered why the world hasn't collapsed already with all the natural gas we took out of it up to now.

Actually it has happened. They discovered oil on Terminal Island at Long Beach and pumped it all out and the island sunk. Parts are now below sea level.

[snarks_when_bored]

Have you also converted to Judaism for the jokes?

[76834]

Actually it has happened. They discovered oil on Terminal Island at Long Beach and pumped it all out and the island sunk. Parts are now below sea level

Subsidence is also a big issue in the Houston area. They have pumped a world of oil out of the strata over the last hundred years or so. Land, like Long Beach, is close or at sea level.
Once valuable real estate is likely to become a part of the Gulf.

[Dog Gone]

The former Amoco Oil company drilled a awfully deep hole (some say more than 17,000 feet),

There's a 35,000 hole being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico right now. It won't reach that depth this year.

[mysto]

Seeking the elusive HoHos... who knew the earth had such a sweet, creamy center? LOL

[Dog Gone]

Subsidence is also a big issue in the Houston area.

The subsidence in the Houston area is attributable to water wells drilled in the 1940s. There is extensive documentation of this. In some places it's reached as much as nine feet.

[Billthedrill]

What if they don't find magma? What if they find...UFO's...???

[Ole Okie]

Phillips Petroleum drilled to 25,000+ feet in the Permian Basin in the 1960's. The well was a duster.

[arthurus]

I'm simply beyond my time

Simply or simple ?

[76834]

Thanks Dog:
I stand corrected, Have always heard that it was because of the oil extraction.

Appreciate the info.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Thank you.