Deep Sea Drilling Project

The Deep Sea Drilling Project ( DSDP ) was an American project for the study of plate tectonics and Paleozeanografie.

Method

The research ship Glomar Challenger used provided the opportunity to carry out drilling on the seabed of the deep sea, and so to win rock samples. For this, a thousand feet deep hole was drilled into the seabed, for example, at a water depth of several thousand meters.

Background

The rock samples and sediments from the sea floor contain indirect information on historical climate variability and environmental conditions. So, for example, remain Get shell fragments of microalgae in sediments and can be evaluated through the millennia.

End of program

The DSDP end in 1984 and was continued in the following year, with improved technology as Ocean Drilling Program ( ODP).