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Article: Leg 104: rifting, currents and climate north of the Arctic Circle.
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- September 14, 1985
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One of the more satisfying aspects of the international, cooperative Ocean Drilling Program (SN: 2/2/85, p. 68) is that it sometimes enables scientists to finally get their hands on real pieces of crust after being tantalized by the strange forms that appear in seismic imaging of the otherwise unseen crustal layers. and the most recent Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) excursion -- Leg 104 to the Voring Plateau in the Norwegian Sea--is no exception.
Seismic profiles of the Voring Plateau had revealed a series of reflectors--lines marking the boundary between layers of different rock types -- that dip away from the continent toward the sea. Similar dipping reflectors ...