Posted on 04/07/2005 2:06:11 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
"They need to rename it the Integrated Drilling-In-Ocean Test"
Ha! IDIOT seeks MOHO. Sounds like a trashy singles ad.
Is that the movie in which a male planet mates with Mother Earth and she has babies....?(sorry tasteless joke ping!)
If they were off, wish they would have hit under Saudi Arabia or Iraq's oil fields, ha!
Now that's funny. I don't care who you are, that's funny!
My friends deep inside the earth say this is a bad idea.
ROFL ........ and Hillary's mouth.
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
LOL, that was a terrible movie.
Have you also converted to Judaism for the jokes?
There's a 35,000 hole being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico right now. It won't reach that depth this year.
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.
What if they don't find magma? What if they find...UFO's...???
Phillips Petroleum drilled to 25,000+ feet in the Permian Basin in the 1960's. The well was a duster.
Simply or simple ?
Thanks Dog:
I stand corrected, Have always heard that it was because of the oil extraction.
Appreciate the info.
Thank you.
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