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Ocean Drilling Quiz School of Rock 2007 Dave Grant - Sandy Hook, NJ 07732 The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) is an international effort to study the seafloor and environmental change. (True or False) The partners in IODP are represented by France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, Russia, the U.S. and 15 other countries. (True or False) JOIDES stands for Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling, which advises IODP. (True or False) The 143 meter JOIDES Resolution is the main drilling ship of the IODP. (True or False) JOIDES Resolution can handle 9,150 meters of drill pipe; enough for drilling around 99.9% of the world's oceans. (True or False) JOIDES Resolution has a 7-meter hole in the bottom of the ship (or moon pool) through which its 61-meter derrick lowers the drill string. (True or False) Drill pipes 28 meters long and 874 kilos are threaded into drill strings to reach the bottom for sampling. (True or False) To piece together a drill string of over 5,000 meters and reach the bottom will take over 12-hours of continuous work by a 7-person drill crew. (True or False) The deepest water that drill strings have been lowered through is 5,980 meters. (True or False) The deepest hole that has been drilled through the upper layers of oceanic crust is 2,111 meters. (True or False) So far, ODP has collected over 138 km of deep sea cores. (True or False) More than 1,700 shipboard scientists have served onboard drilling cruises. (True or False) More than 1,000,000 samples have been collected for the laboratory study of seafloor spreading, tectonics, mineral resources and global change. (True or False) The layers of sediments found in deep ocean cores are the best record of earth's geology and climate change back to the K-T Boundary when the dinosaurs went extinct. (True or False) The IODP has recovered sediments all the way back to the Triassic Period, 227 million years ago, when dinosaurs first appeared (But horseshoe crabs were already old-timers!). (True or False)