Miller, Jay et al. (2009): Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 320T preliminary report; USIO Sea Trials and Assessment of Readiness Transit (START); Ontong Java Plateau; 25 January-5 March 2009

Leg/Site/Hole:
ODP 130
ODP 130 807
Identifier:
2009-057202
georefid

1932-9423
issn

10.2204/iodp.pr.320T.2009
doi

Creator:
Miller, Jay
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
author

Higgins, Sean
Consortium for Ocean Leadership, United States
author

Acton, Gary D.
University of California-Davis, United States
author

Leckie, Mark
University of Massachusetts, United States
author

Marsaglia, Kathleen
California State University-Northridge, United States
author

Milliken, Kitty
University of Texas at Austin, United States
author

Neal, Clive
University of Notre Dame, United States
author

St. John, Kristen
James Madison University, United States
author

Wilkens, Roy
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, United States
author

Alvarez-Zarikian, Carlos
University of Leicester, United Kingdom
author

Gamage, Kusali
University of Aachen, Federal Republic of Germany
author

Geldmacher, Joerg
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, United States
author

Anderson, Louise
author

Fehr, Annick
author

Guerin, Gilles
author

Inwood, Jenny
author

Meissner, Eric
author

Slagle, Angela
author

Identification:
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 320T preliminary report; USIO Sea Trials and Assessment of Readiness Transit (START); Ontong Java Plateau; 25 January-5 March 2009
2009
Preliminary Report (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program)
IODP Management International, College Station, TX, United States
320T
85 pp.
The Sea Trials and Assessment of Readiness Transit (START), or Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 320T, was planned as a shakedown of the R/V JOIDES Resolution. The ship, operated under the auspices of the United States Implementing Organization (USIO) as part of IODP, has just completed an extensive 115+ million dollar refit in Jurong Shipyard, Singapore. The scientific research vessel spent 29 months (September 2006-January 2009) in Singapore, where the ship's hotel and laboratory structure was replaced and the marine and drilling systems were completely refurbished. The overall objectives of Expedition 320T included a shakedown of the ship's drilling, coring, and downhole logging capabilities, in particular the testing of the new wireline heave compensator. Additionally, all the scientific laboratory analytical systems, computer applications, and data uploading/storage capabilities were assessed. Lastly, this expedition served to relocate the ship from Southeast Asia to Hawaii for the start of IODP-USIO Phase 2 science operations in the equatorial Pacific (Expeditions 320 and 321).
English
Coverage:Geographic coordinates:
North:3.3626
West:156.3727East: 156.3730
South:3.3620

Stratigraphy; aliphatic hydrocarbons; alkanes; biostratigraphy; boreholes; Cenozoic; chemostratigraphy; cores; drilling; Equatorial Pacific; Expedition 320T; Foraminifera; gamma-ray spectra; geochemistry; hydrocarbons; hydrochemistry; Integrated Ocean Drilling Program; Invertebrata; Leg 130; lithostratigraphy; magnetic properties; magnetic susceptibility; magnetostratigraphy; major elements; marine drilling; marine sediments; methane; microfossils; Neogene; North Pacific; Northwest Pacific; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP Site 807; Ontong Java Plateau; organic compounds; Pacific Ocean; paleomagnetism; physical properties; Pliocene; pore water; Protista; Quaternary; sedimentary structures; sediments; spectra; Tertiary; trace elements; well logs; West Pacific;

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