Collaboration Proposal for Deep Stratigraphic Drilling on Lord Howe Rise

A proposal details a scientific collaboration between Geoscience Australia and JAMSTEC, approved by the International Ocean Discovery Program. The goal is to collect deep rock cores from a northern Zealandia basin to analyze a 100-million-year geological history. The project, active since 2014, aims for drilling several kilometers below the seafloor.

Use Cases

• Analyze deep rock cores to reconstruct a 100-million-year history of geology and tectonics.
• Study rock core samples to investigate records of past climate dynamics.
• Examine core material for evidence of ancient microbial life to understand life's limits.

Strengths

• Proposal is approved by the International Ocean Discovery Program, a long-running global collaboration.
• Aims to unlock a 100-million-year geological and climatic history from the cores.
• Represents the first proposal for scientific drilling to several kilometers depth in Australia's maritime jurisdiction.

Limitations

• Dataset is a descriptive proposal document; no actual columnar data or sample records are provided.
• Scientific drilling and core collection are conditional on future funding.
• Information is presented in HTML format, not structured for direct computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Collaborative research proposal and planning between Geoscience Australia and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC).

Time Range

Collaboration active since 2014; proposal focuses on future drilling.

Freshness

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Geography

Lord Howe Rise, northern Zealandia basin, within Australia's maritime jurisdiction.