This site offers students an opportunity to take a virtual field trip on a research cruise to gather deep-sea sediment cores from the ocean floor. Students learn that the only way to obtain the cores is to go to sea by ship for up to three months. This trip is aboard the research vessel (R.V.) MAURICE EWING of the Lamont-Doherty Repository with coring gear borrowed from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. One feature of this site is a rapid sequence of photographs showing the coring gear being moved into position. The site also contains active links to more information and a stop-over in Iceland.
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Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Maps Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8), Intermediate (3-5) Theme: Teach the Earth:Course Topics:OceanographyKeywords: Diatoms, Oxygen, Isotopes
