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Highlights of ODP Discoveries


Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits is a collection of key advances made by the Ocean Drilling Program. A selection of abstracts were published in two brochures:

The following PDF files include all contributed Greatest Hits abstracts.

| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |


A

Wandering Poles and Colliding Continents (PDF)
Gary D. Acton, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, USA

The structure and chemistry of submarine hydrothermal systems revealed by deep ocean drilling
Jeffrey C. Alt, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Michigan

Deciphering the history of the oceanic phosphorus budget from the sediment record (PDF)
Linda D. Anderson, Ocean Sciences/Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz; Gabriel M. Filippelli, Department of Geology, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis; and Margaret L. Delaney, Ocean Sciences/Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz

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History of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (PDF)
Peter Barker, British Antarctic Survey; Angelo Camerlenghi, OGS Italy; Alan Cooper, US Geological Survey; Phil O'Brien, Australian Geological Survey

Deciphering the Structure of the Ocean Crust Using Downhole Logs (PDF)
Samantha Barr, Department of Geology, University of Leicester, U.K.

Treasure in the Making Under the Sea Floor (PDF)
Fernando Barriga, University of Lisbon, Portugal; Ray Binns, CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining, Australia; Jay Miller, Texas A&M University, USA

Diatoms suggest limited sea-surface-temperature change in the seas around Antarctica during the middle part of the Pliocene (PDF)
John A. Barron, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park

Borehole observatories monitor active hydrology beneath the seafloor (PDF)
Keir Becker, Division of Marine Geology & Geophysics, RSMAS, University of Miami
Earl E. Davis, Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada

Productivity paradox in the western equatorial Pacific, late Quaternary (PDF)
W.H. Berger, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, C.B. Lange, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, and M.K. Yasuda, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

Namibia Upwelling: Ocean Meadows off the Desert (PDF)
Wolfgang H. Berger and C. B. Lange, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA; Gerold Wefer, University of Bremen, Germany

The ophiolite problem: A perspective from drilling in the Western Pacific (PDF)
Sherman H. Bloomer, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University

Russian Oceanography is Still Alive (PDF)
Nikita A. Bogdanov and Ivan A. Basov, Institute of the Lithosphere of Marginal Seas, Russian Academy of Sciences

The Meeting of Two Microbial Worlds (PDF)
Walter S. Borowski, Eastern Kentucky University; Charles K. Paull and William Ussler III, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA

A global warming event 55 million years ago (PDF)
Timothy J. Bralower, Department of Geology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Fault-confined fluid flow on the Cascadia accretionary prism (PDF)
Bobb Carson, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University
Elizabeth J. Screaton, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado
Earl Davis, Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada

Massive outpouring of magma in the western Pacific during the Cretaceous suggests deep mantle source (PDF)
Paterno R. Castillo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

Monsoon response to global climate change (PDF)
Steven C. Clemens, Geological Sciences, Brown University; David W. Murray, Geological Sciences, Brown University; and Warren L. Prell, Geological Sciences, Brown University

Distribution of high quality Plio-Pleistocene magnetostratigraphic records (PDF)
Brad L. Clement, Florida International University

Vertical tectonics and stratigraphic evolution of rifted volcanic margins (PDF)
Peter D. Clift, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Evidence for vigorous Cretaceous mantle dynamics from large igneous provinces (PDF)
Millard F. Coffin, Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin, and Olav Eldholm, Department of Geology, University of Oslo

The Lost World: Environmental Effects During the Formation of a Giant Volcanic Province
Millard F. Coffin, The University of Tokyo & Japan Marine Science and Technology Center; Fred A. Frey, New York Institute of Technology; Paul Wallace, University of Oregon, USA; ODP Leg 183 Scientific Party

LIP Reading: Understanding the Kerguelen Plateau and Broken Ridgean (PDF)
Millard F. Coffin, The University of Tokyo & Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, Japan; Fred A. Frey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Paul Wallace, University of Oregon, USA; ODP Leg 183 Scientific Party

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Watching Plates Move with CORK Observatories (PDF)
Earl Davis, Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada; Keir Becker, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, USA

How Physical Properties Identify Structures and Composition of Igneous Basement Rock (PDF)
Heike Delius, Department of Geology, University of Leicester, U.K. and A. Bartezko and R. Pechnig, Aachen University of Technology

African climate & human evolution: The land-sea connection (PDF)
Peter B. deMenocal, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

When Did the Himalayas Get High? (PDF)
Louis A. Derry, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, USA; Christian France-Lanord, Centre des Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, France

Clues to Global Warming Found in Antarctica (PDF)
Eugene Domack, Hamilton College, USA

Caribbean carbonate crash at the Middle/Late Miocene transition (12.4 and 10.6 Ma): Initiation of the modern global thermohaline ocean circulation (PDF)
André W. Droxler, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Rice University, and Shipboard Scientific Party of ODP Leg 165

The life cycle of mantle plumes (PDF)
Robert A. Duncan and Martin R. Fisk, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University

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The control of sea-level changes on the sedimentary architecture of carbonate margins (PDF)
Gregor P. Eberli, Division of Marine Geology and Geophysics, University of Miami

The Suffocation of an Ocean
Jochen Erbacher, Marine Geology and Deep Sea Mining, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany; Brian T. Huber, Smithsonian Institution, USA; Richard Norris, Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

Antarctic-Australia Separation (PDF)
Neville F. Exon, Geoscience Australia, James P. Kennett, Department of Geological Sciences, UC Santa Barbara, USA; Mitchell J. Malone, ODP College Station, USA; and the Leg 189 Science Party

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Dating marine sediments by strontium isotope stratigraphy (PDF)
John W. Farrell, Steven C. Clemens, and L. Peter Gromet, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University

On the lateral and vertical scale of ridge-flank hydrothermal circulation (PDF)
A.T. Fisher, Earth Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz; E.E. Davis, Pacific Geoscience Centre; J. Grigel, Bremen University; D. Pribnow, NLfB-GGA; K. Becker, University of Miami, RSMAS; J. Stein, Earth Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz; and the ODP Leg 168 Scientific Party

Subseafloor "Rivers" of Fluid and Heat
Andrew T. Fisher, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

The role of water within fault zones (PDF)
Andrew T. Fisher, Institute of Tectonics and Earth Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz; Elizabeth Screaton, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado; Gretchen Zwart, Earth Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz; Keir Becker, Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics, RSMAS, University of Miami; and Earl Davis, Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada

Evidence for microbes in oceanic basalts: Glass-eating bacteria? (PDF)
Martin R. Fisk, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University

Relationship of Amazon Fan growth to sea-level change (PDF)
Roger D. Flood, Marine Sciences Resarch Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Ice-sheet grounding on the Yermak Plateau (Arctic Ocean) prior to ca. 600 ka? (PDF)
Benjamin P. Flower, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz

Orbital-scale climate variability recorded near the Oligocene-Miocene boundary (PDF)
B.P. Flower, J.C. Zachos, and H. Paul, Earth Sciences Dept. and Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz

Fault Weakening by Hydrothermal Fluid Flow: Fact vs. Friction (PDF)
Jacqueline S. Floyd and John C. Mutter, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, U.S.A

Leg 169 drills a major sulfide deposit on a sediment-buried spreading center (PDF)
Yves Fouquet, IFREMER; Robert Zierenberg, Department of Geology, University of California, Davis; and the Leg 169 Scientific Party

History of a long-lived mantle plume in the Southern Indian Ocean (PDF)
Fred A. Frey, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dominique Weis, Université Libre de Bruxelles; and Vincent J.M. Salters, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Dept. of Geology, Florida State University

ODP discovers mud volcanoes from the mantle (PDF)
Patricia Fryer, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, SOEST, University of Hawaii

Three-dimensional geometries of Miocene progradation, New Jersey margin: Understanding sea-level change during the "Icehouse" (PDF)
Craig S. Fulthorpe and James A. Austin, Jr., University of Texas Institute for Geophysics

Using the New Jersey Continental Shelf to Understand Sea Level Change (PDF)
Craig S. Fulthorpe and James A. Austin Jr., Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin

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New evidence for massive landslides from the Hawaiian Islands (PDF)
Michael O. Garcia, University of Hawaii

Geochemistry of borehole fluids: Example of Hole 504B (PDF)
Joris Gieskes, Marine Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Pressure Cooking of Sediments (PDF)
Joris Gieskes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA; Rachael James, The Open University, UK; Junishiro Ishibashi, Laboratory of Earthquake Chemistry, University of Tokyo; Wayne Goodfellow, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa; Robert Zierenberg, University of California, Davis, USA

Shear-wave logging in natural gas hydrates (PDF)
Dave Goldberg and Gilles Guerin, Borehole Research Group, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Shear Wave Velocity, Crustal Anisotropy, and In Situ Stress in the Vicinity of the Kane Fracture Zone
David Goldberg and Gerardo Iturrino, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York, USA; Doug Patterson, Baker-Atlas INTEQ, Houston, Texas, USA

High-resolution dating of seafloor basalt with uranium-series isotopes (PDF)
Steven J. Goldstein, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Michael T. Murrell, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Michael R. Perfit, University of Florida; Kenneth W. W. Sims, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and Daniel J. Fornari, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Chaetoceros resting spores in laminated diatomaceous sediments: Paleocological and evolutionary implications of phytoplankton "suicide" (PDF)
Kurt A. Grimm, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia

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Using Images to Find Accurate Orientation and Location of ODP Cores (PDF)
Sarah L. Haggas, Department of Geology, University of Leicester, U.K.

Borehole Image Data: Identification of Rock Type (PDF)
Sarah L. Haggas, Department of Geology, University of Leicester, U.K.

Discovery of organic acids in deep marine environments from ODP pore waters (PDF)
Janet A. Haggerty, Department of Geosciences, University of Tulsa, and J. Berton Fisher, Gardere & Wynne, L.L.P.

Western Pacific carbonate platforms: Sunken atolls vs. carbonate banks (PDF)
Janet A. Haggerty, Department of Geosciences, University of Tulsa, and Isabella Premoli Silva, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universita di Milano

Mid-Cretaceous Pacific carbonate platforms: Subaerial vs. submarine diagenesis (PDF)
Janet A. Haggerty, Department of Geosciences, University of Tulsa, and Robert van Waasbergen, Department of Geosciences, University of Tulsa

Geochemical variations in a single basaltic flow at 9°30'N on the East Pacific Rise (PDF)
Karen S. Harpp, Chemistry Department, Lawrence University

A Marine Record of Holocene Climate Events in Tropical South America (PDF)
Gerald H. Haug, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland and Larry C. Peterson, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, USA

The Rise of Panama (PDF)
Gerald H. Haug, Dept. of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and Ralf Tiedemann, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany

New insight to the evolution of backarc basins: Leg 135 drilling transect (PDF)
James W. Hawkins, Geoscience Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Climate periodicity in "icehouse" and "Greenhouse" worlds (PDF)
Timothy D. Herbert, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University

Significance of the Indian Ocean-type isotopic signature in Western Pacific marginal basin basalts (PDF)
Rosemary Hickey-Vargas, Florida International University

Leg 162, North Atlantic Gateways II: GHMT Logging Results (PDF)
Sean Higgins, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columia University

ODP Breaking Through Barriers
Martin Hovland, Statoil, Norway

Mediterranean isotope record reveals link between sapropel formation and climate change (PDF)
Michael W. Howell, Department of Geological Sciences and Marine Science Program, University of South Carolina

ODP reveals the anatomy of an actively forming seafloor mineral deposit (PDF)
Susan E. Humphris, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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Into the Deep Ocean Crust (PDF)
Benoit Ildefonse, CNRS, Université Montpellier 2, France; Henry Dick, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, USA; Mathilde Cannat, CNRS, IPG Paris, France

Estimating the Magnitude of Sea Level Change (PDF)
Alexandra Isern, National Science Foundation, USA

Looking Beneath the Seabed (PDF)
Gerardo J. Iturrino and David Goldberg, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, USA

Fracture permeability in active hydrothermal systems: Observations from downhole measurements (PDF)
Gerardo J. Iturrino, Borehole Research Group, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Gilles Guerin, Borehole Research Group, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Henrike Gröschel-Becker, Division of Marine Geology & Geophysics, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences; Robert Gable, Département Hydrologie et Tranferts, BRGM; and the ODP Leg 169 Scientific Party

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J

Milankovitch cyclicity observed in ODP downhole logs (PDF)
Richard D. Jarrard, Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Utah

Primitive melt inclusions, the missing link between the mantle and MORB (PDF)
Kevin T. M. Johnson, Department of Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum

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Climate Change and Microorganism Size (PDF)
Kunio Kaiho, Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Tohoku University, Japan

Recycling processes and fluid fluxes in subduction zones (PDF)
Miriam Kastner, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Benthic foraminifers as tracers of deep water masses, global climate, and sea-level history (PDF)
Miriam E. Katz, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, and Kenneth G. Miller, Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University

A newly discovered methane reservoir in the oceanic crust (PDF)
Deborah S. Kelley, School of Oceanography, University of Washington, and Gretchen Früh-Green, Institute for Mineralogy and Petrology, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland

Rapid climatic and oceanographic change in Santa Barbara Basin (PDF)
James P. Kennett, I. Hendy, and Kevin Cannariato, Department of Geological Sciences and Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara; and Richard J. Behl, Department of Geological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach

Are sediments recycled in the Kamchatkan Arc? Constraints from ODP sediment cores (PDF)
Annie B. Kersting, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Environmental magnetic studies reveal major events in Earth history (PDF)
John W. King, Steven D'Hondt, and Carol Gibson, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island

Devolatization and Geochemical Cycling along out-of-sequence Thrust off Japan (PDF)
Achim J. Kopf and Annette Deyhle, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA

Mud Volcanoes in the Eastern Mediterranean
Achim J. Kopf, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, and Alastair H.F. Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK

Dust composition as a guide to wind patterns and paleoclimates (PDF)
Lawrence A. Krissek, Department of Geological Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus

Ice-rafted debris and the history of Northern Hemisphere glaciations (PDF)
Lawrence A. Krissek, Department of Geological Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, and Kristen E. Kudless, Department of Geological Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus

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Fire and ice on the SE Greenland Margin (PDF)
Hans Christian Larsen, Geological Survey of Greenland; Andrew D. Saunders, Department of Geology, University of Leicester; J. Godfrey Fitton, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Edinburgh; and the Leg 152 Scientific Party

Fossil Thermometers for Earth's Climate (PDF)
Carrie Lear, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, USA; Harry Elderfield, University of Cambridge, UK; and Paul A. Wilson, University of Southampton, UK

Tectonics and plankton evolution during the Mid-Cretaceous (PDF)
R. Mark Leckie, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Timothy J. Bralower, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Tephra glass record of island arc magmatic evolution (PDF)
Jongman Lee and Robert J. Stern, Center for Lithospheric Studies, University of Texas at Dallas; and Sherman H. Bloomer, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University

Oxygen-isotope record of sea level and climatic variations in the Sulu Sea over the past 150,000 years (PDF)
Braddock K. Linsley, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, State University of New York at Albany

The Oldest Crust in Ocean Basins (PDF)
John Ludden, CRPG-CNRS, France; Terry Plank, Boston University, USA; Roger Larson University of Rhode Island, USA

Neogene evolution of the California Current System (PDF)
Mitchell Lyle, Center for Geophysical Investigation of the Shallow Subsurface, Boise State University; Itaru Koizumi, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; Carl Richter, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University; and the ODP Leg 167 Shipboard Scientific Party

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Inferring the structure of greenhouse oceans from the distribution of inoceramid bivalves (PDF)
Kenneth G. MacLeod, Dept. of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Inst., and Dept. of Geological Sci., U. of Washington

Blueschist metamorphism in an active subduction zone (PDF)
Hirokazu Maekawa, Kobe University

Probing giant lava bursts from the mantle: The Ontong Java Plateau (PDF)
John Mahoney, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii

Clues to What Happens at Converging Plates (PDF)
Alex Maltman, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, U.K.

Alteration of volcanic ash forms calcium-chloride brines (PDF)
Jonathan B. Martin, University of Florida, and Per Kr. Egeberg, Agder College

Chesapeake Bay Crater: Source for upper Eocene ejecta, New Jersey continental margin (PDF)
Cecilia M. G. McHugh, Geology Department Queens College, City University of New York, and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University; Billy P. Glass, Department of Geology, University of Delaware; and Scott W. Snyder, Department of Geology, East Carolina University

Rapid climate changes recorded in sediments recovered by deep drilling in the North Atlantic Ocean (PDF)
Jerry F. McManus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Benthic Foraminifera from ODP Sites Verify Model of Subduction Erosion (PDF)
Martin Meschede, Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, Germany

Twin Hotspot Tracks and Ridge Jumps: The Evolution of the Cocos Nazca Spreading Center (PDF)
Martin Meschede and Udo Barckhausen, Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, Germany

Paleoclimate significance of organic-carbon-rich sapropels of the Mediterranean Sea (PDF)
Philip A. Meyers, Department of Geological Science, University of Michigan

Climate Change in the Mediterranean Sea (PDF)
Phillip Meyers, Department of Geological Science, University of Michigan

The New Jersey Coastal Plain Drilling Project: Continental scientific drilling meets the ODP (PDF)
Kenneth G. Miller, Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, and Members of the New Jersey Coastal Plain Drilling Project

Does Earth's biosphere set climate sensitivity? (PDF)
Alan C. Mix, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University

Logging-While-Drilling determines where and why the plate boundary localizes and the origin of its distinctive seismic reflections (PDF)
J. Casey Moore, University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Leg 171A Scientific Party

Orbitally-tuned time scales and mapping the first appearances and extinctions of species in time and space (PDF)
Theodore C. Moore, Jr., University of Michigan

Massive hydrothermal circulation of seawater through mid-ocean ridge flanks: Insights from ocean drilling (PDF)
Michael J. Mottl, Dept. of Oceanography, University of Hawaii

ODP at the water's edge: Defining the history of sea-level change (PDF)
Gregory Mountain, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, and
Kenneth G. Miller, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University and Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University

Dispersed ash & terrigenous inputs to the Caribbean Sea: Constraints on Cenozoic explosive volcanism and circum-Caribbean tectonism (PDF)
R. W. Murray, Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University; H. Sigurdsson, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island; D. G. Pearson, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Durham University; T. Lyons, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia; S. Carey, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island; J. Sparks, Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University; and the Leg 165 Shipboard Scientific Party

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How thick is the oceanic crust? (PDF)
James H. Natland, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, and Rodey Batiza, SOEST, University of Hawaii

Deformation of crystal-liquid mush and the formation of the lower oceanic crust (PDF)
James H. Natland, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, and Henry J.B. Dick, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

The origin of magma lenses and the deep crustal structure of fast spreading ridges (PDF)
James H. Natland, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, and Henry J.B. Dick, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Exciting new perspectives on the Paleocene-Eocene boundary events and the Early Eocene warm period (PDF)
Richard D. Norris, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Leg 171B Science Party

Records of the apocalypse: ODP drills the K/T boundary (PDF)
Richard D. Norris, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the ODP Leg 171B Scientific Party

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Physical properties of ODP Leg 122, Site 762: A comparison of shipboard and shore-based laboratory results (PDF)
David K. O'Brien, EMCON Alaska, Inc. and University of Alaska, Anchorage, and Murli H. Manghnani, University of Hawaii

Ejecta layer at the K/T Boundary, Bass River, New Jersey (ODP Leg 174AX) (PDF)
Richard K. Olsson and Kenneth G. Miller, Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University

Manganese redirection and expanded oxygen minima in the Neogene Indian Ocean (PDF)
Robert M. Owen, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, and Gerald R. Dickens, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan

Tracking ancient ocean rifting events by using hydrothermal components in ocean sediments (PDF)
Robert M. Owen, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, and Gerald R. Dickens, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan

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Miocene climate change: A molecular approach (PDF)
Mark Pagani, Michael A. Arthur, and Katherine H. Freeman, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University

ODP drills gas hydrates, the world's largest source of fossil fuel (PDF)
Charles Paull, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Gerald R. Dickens, University of Michigan; W. Steven Holbrook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and Walter Borowski, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Tales of Black Shales (PDF)
Adina Paytan, Stanford University, USA

Seawater, Sulfate, and Climate (PDF)
Adina Paytan, Stanford University; Miriam Kastner, Scripps Institute of Oceanography; Douglas Campbell and Mark H. Thiemens, University of California San Diego; USA

High-resolution core-log integration: Approaching the centimeter scale (PDF)
Carlos Pirmez and Candace O. Major, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Sediment recycling at subduction zones: The ins and outs of arc volcanoes (PDF)
Terry Plank, Department of Geology, University of Kansas, and Charles Langmuir, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

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Millennial-scale climate variability over the last 3 Ma: ODP Leg 162 (PDF)
M. E. Raymo, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sudden onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation at 2.65 Ma: A possible result of volcanic forcing (PDF)
David K. Rea and Libby Prueher, University of Michigan

Post middle Miocene dust accumulation in the North Pacific: A record of central Asian climate change (PDF)
David K. Rea and Hilde Snoeckx, University of Michigan

Eratosthenes Seamount (PDF)
Alastair H.F. Robertson, University of Edinburgh, U.K.

Thermal properties of seafloor massive sulfide deposits (PDF)
Peter A. Rona, Inst. of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Dept. of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University; Earl E. Davis, Geological Survey of Canada, Pacific Geoscience Centre; and Rainer J. Ludwig, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Stratigraphy and structure of the Barbados accretionary prism from Logging-While-Drilling (PDF)
Saneatsu Saito, Candace O. Major, and David Goldberg, Borehole Research Group, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Ice age ocean temperatures inferred from ODP pore waters (PDF)
Daniel P. Schrag, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

Fundamental discoveries about the growth and recycling of continents (PDF)
David W. Scholl, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, and Roland von Huene, GEOMAR

Chemical proxies of biological production in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean: Targeting paleoceanographic changes of the past 12 Ma (PDF)
J. O. Schroeder Cadigan, GZA Environmental, Inc.; R. W. Murray, Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University, (Corresponding Author); M. Leinen, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island; R. C. Pflaum, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Univ. of Hawaii; and T. R. Janecek, Antarctic Research Facility, Florida State University

Spatial heterogeneity of physical properties along the Barbados plate-boundary fault (PDF)
Thomas H. Shipley, Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin

Central American explosive volcanic episodes recorded in ODP Leg 165 sediments (PDF)
Haraldur Sigurdsson and Steven Carey, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island; and the Scientific Party of Leg 165

Sediment subduction offshore Central America (PDF)
Eli Silver, University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Leg 170 Scientific Party

Hydrothermal petroleum in sedimented rifts (PDF)
Bernd R.T. Simoneit, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University

Organic compounds as thermal sensors for sediment alteration (PDF)
Bernd R.T. Simoneit, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University

Microbes: Life Deep Beneath the Seafloor (PDF)
David C. Smith, University of Rhode Island, USA

Neogene Environments: Hints to the Future (PDF)
Peter Smolka, University Muenster, Germany

Seismoacoustic noise below the seafloor (PDF)
Ralph A. Stephen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Christopher R. Bradley, Scripps Institution for Oceanography

The Ocean Seismic Network Pilot Experiment
Ralph A. Stephen, S.T. Bolmer, J.A. Collins and K.R. Peal, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; J.A. Hildebrand, J.A. Orcutt, DF.N. Spiess, and F.L. Vernon, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Determining climate and sea-level changes using core-log integration methods (PDF)
Yue-Feng Sun, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University; Xin Su, GEOMAR, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel; and the Leg 168 Shipboard Scientific Party

The Earth's Next Move (PDF)
Kiyoshi Suyehiro, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center

Detecting fluid flow through the margin of Great Bahama Bank (PDF)
Peter K. Swart, Marine Geology and Geophysics, RSMAS, University of Miami

The velocity structure in upper ocean crust at Hole 504B from vertical seismic profiles (PDF)
Stephen A. Swift, Ralph A. Stephen, D. Lizarralde, and Hartley Hoskins, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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Large-scale motion between hotspots (PDF)
John A. Tarduno, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, and Jeff Gee, Geological Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla CA

Dissecting an active hydrothermal deposit (PDF)
Damon A.H. Teagle and Jeffrey C. Alt, Geological Sciences, University of Michigan; Hitochi Chiba, Kyushu University, Japan; and Susan E. Humphris, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tracing fluid evolution during hydrothermal circulation (PDF)
Damon A.H. Teagle and Jeffrey C. Alt, Geological Sciences, University of Michigan; and the ODP Leg 164 Scientific Party

Latest Paleocene deep-sea extinction: A pre-anthropogenic super greenhouse? (PDF)
Ellen Thomas, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University

Small Organisms on the Sea Floor: Understanding Pathways of Carbon in the Oceans (PDF)
Ellen Thomas, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, USA

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Mesozoic drift and rotation of the Pacific plate (PDF)
Brian P. Wallick, Mobil Exploration and Producing, U.S.

Earth's Orbit and the Mediterranean (PDF)
Rolf Wehausen and Hans-J. Brumsack, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Oldenburg University, Germany

Rupturing Continents Exposed Mantle Rocks (PDF)
Bob Whitmarsh, Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK and the ODP Legs 149 and 173 Shipboard Scientific Parties

Relative changes in Cretaceous sea level as recorded on guyots of the Mid-Pacific Mountains (PDF)
Jerry Winterer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

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