EurekAlert [USA], 22-Dec-2010
About 50 miles from Bethlehem, a drilling project is determining the
climate and earthquake activity of the Holy Land. Scientists from eight
nations are examining the ground below the Dead Sea, by placing a
borehole in this deepest basin in the world. The International
Continental Scientific Drilling Program ICDP brings together research
teams from Israel, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, the USA and Germany.
Particularly noteworthy: Researchers from Jordan and Palestine are also
involved. Scientists and technicians of the GFZ German Research Centre
for Geosciences have now completed a geophysical measurement procedure
in the hole and helped with the initial examination of the cores in a
field laboratory. "We have drilled through about half a million years of
sedimentary deposits," estimates Dr. Ulrich Harms from the ICDP's
operational support group at the GFZ.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-12/haog-dit122210.php
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