Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) and the Glomar Challenger
Programa de Perforación en el Océano Profundo (DSDP) y el Glomar Challenger
- Date
- 1968-1973 · confidence high
- Place
- La Jolla, California, United States
- Credited to
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the JOIDES consortium
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
The Glomar Challenger, which held its position over the hole, drilled ocean floors from 1968. In the South Atlantic it found that the basal sediments were older the farther from the ridge, which confirmed seafloor spreading.
Leg 3 (1968-1969) in the South Atlantic was the one that gave confirmation. The coordinates are those of Scripps, the operating centre, not the holes.
What it led to
- confirmation of the age of the ocean floor
- the international ODP and IODP programmes
- palaeoceanography and climate records