TheJR
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Drilling Hole D on our 2nd site. We'll be here 24 hour hours, then back to the shelf
13 minutes ago
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I posted 5 photos on Facebook in the album "Christmas on the JR"
about 3 hours ago
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Our record breaking hole is cemented and finished!
about 7 hours ago
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The seas are too rough for us to drill at our next site on the Continental Shelf. Right now the co-chiefs are...
about 8 hours ago
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Lifeboat drill in 3 hours
10:41 AM Dec 19th
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Wondering if the seals wil stay away long enough for us to do seismic profiling on this hole.
3:04 AM Dec 19th
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We finished off this hole at a depth of 1927 meters (1.2 miles) and an age of Late Eocene (~35 million years old). ...
2:57 AM Dec 19th
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We've hit a definite limestone which is coming up in chunks. The techs are having to split each chunk of core individually.
7:22 AM Dec 18th
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We've hit our target of the Marshall Paraconformity and the bottom of the hole seems to be in the neighborhood of...
5:14 AM Dec 18th
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And the stockings were hung in the galley with care!
1:52 PM Dec 17th
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Our last core on deck was from a depth of 1803 m, which means we've drilled just over a mile below the seafloor.
6:05 AM Dec 17th
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We're getting an age of about 18 million years at the bottom of our current hole based on microfossil ages. Well...
4:55 AM Dec 17th
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I posted 2 photos on Facebook in the album "Exp 317 Whale (?) Fossils"
3:33 AM Dec 17th
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High resolution sampling of a Bering Sea core section at the sampling party in Japan
11:43 AM Dec 16th
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The Expedition 323 (Bering Sea) scientists at their sampling party at the Kochi Core Center in Kochi University
11:40 AM Dec 16th
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I posted 7 photos on Facebook in the album "Christmas on the JR"
5:29 AM Dec 16th
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JR Trivia for the day: One a single 60 day expedition, we go through 10,000 eggs, 4000 liters of milk and 1000 lbs of flour
4:52 AM Dec 16th
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Some fossil bones were found in the core located about 1700 m. below seafloor. They've been tentatively identified...
4:45 AM Dec 16th
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Expedition 317 has collected the deepest microbiology samples on record.
9:23 AM Dec 15th
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The drillers are currently performing a "Wiper Trip" on the hole. This involves pulling the pipe up a few hundred...
3:19 AM Dec 15th
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- Name JOIDES Resolution
- Location http://joidesresolution.org
- Web http://www.joides...
- Bio The JR is an amazing ship that explores beneath the sea floor, taking core samples and measurements to give scientists a glimpse into Earth’s past.
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