Posted on 03/15/2018 8:17:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A team of researchers from around the world, working as part of the Corinth Active Rift Development expedition, collected 1.6 kilometers (one mile) of sediment core and data from boreholes at three different locations in the Gulf of Corinth in Central Greece. The samples provide a continuous, high resolution record of complex changes in past environment and rift-faulting rates over at least the last one million years.
The Corinth Rift is one of the most seismically active areas in Europe where one of the Earth's tectonic plates is being ripped apart causing geological hazards including earthquakes, tsunamis and landslides...
The Expedition team collected the core samples whilst aboard the drilling vessel Fugro Synergy between October and December 2017. The cores were then opened, analysed and sampled by the scientific team in February 2018 during a month of intensive work at the University of Bremen in Germany.
Analysis of the cores recovered from deep below the seafloor reveals a series of very complex changes in the chemical and biological conditions within the waters of the basin over the last approximately 0.5 million years. These changes are driven by the global growth and shrinkage of the Earth's ice sheets, which in turn control the height of global sea level.
Fluctuations in sea level cause the Gulf of Corinth basin to switch between a normal marine environment, when the Gulf was connected to the world's oceans, and a wide range of more complex conditions when sea level is low. The rift's sediments show that an unusual range of organisms lived within the basin under these complex conditions.
(Excerpt) Read more at southampton.ac.uk ...
Image of core material collected during IODP Expedition 381 from deposits at the very base of the rift sequence. Southampton alum Casey Nixon, University of Bergen and Romain Hemelsdael, University of Montpellier examine split split core samples. Members of the research team examine core samples from the Corinth Rift.
Interesting core sample (conglomerate). What was the depth? Base of the rift makes it pretty spectacular.
*gasp*
Fascinating!
Thanks, SC!
:o]
IOW, this stuff happens no matter how much they tax our carbon footprints?
We here read it and think wow, interesting.
Liberals read this and think:
“”The Expedition team collected the core samples whilst aboard the drilling vessel Fugro Synergy between October and December 2017.””
Fugro Synergy
Synergy
Energy
This must have been funded by big oil, it’s wrong and the findings are altered to benefit them.
It looks like sand and gravels to me.
I suspect that this is the case here.
OTOH, if you are right and Fugro Synergy is allowing the use of a $300,000 per day offshore drilling rig for researchers (hint - they don't work for free), in order to spin the research ...
Nah, O&G companies don't need much help to spin news their way.
Ask Gasprom.
Tomorrow on "The View" Trump will properly be blamed for it.
They left out male ED, scurvy, hay-fever, and Libtards.
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