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Deep Scientific Drilling

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Definition

Scientific Drilling :

Applying drilling methods developed in the hydrocarbon and mineral exploration industry to dig holes and retrieve samples of rock and fluid for scientific, not-for-profit purposes.

Deep Scientific Drilling :

Drilling for scientific research goals beyond near-surface geological and shallow groundwater exploration to depths greater than several hundred meters subsurface, through land, sea ice, or below the sea/lake floor.

Introduction

Geoscientific insight into the deep Earth is mostly based on observations from the surface, indirect evidence through deep geophysical investigations or, increasingly, modeling. However, several critical Earth system processes and records of environmental and paleoclimate change are difficult to observe from ground level only. Hence, despite the great progress achieved in solid Earth science of the past decades, truly ground-truthed knowledge of the dynamics of Earth’s crust is limited.

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