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Onshore science Party

Feb 14, 2018
Mai Linh Doan uses the fall cone to measure the resistance of the sediment. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp
Mai Linh Doan uses the fall cone to measure the resistance of the sediment. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

In December last year, the offshore phase of IODP Expedition 381 – Corinth Active Rift Development ended with the recovery of 1,645 meters of core. The full science party has now convened at the MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen to split the cores and perform full analyses and sampling. These new insights into how the earliest phase of rifting takes place and impacts the paleoenvironment are expected to make significant advances that can be used to understand other active and ancient rifts around the world. MARUM is home to one of the world's three Internaltional Ocean Discovery Program  (IODP) core repositories which archives cores from the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea recovered since 1968.