Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

Expeditions 309 and 312 Scientific Prospectus

Superfast Spreading Rate Crust 2 and 3

A complete in situ section of upper oceanic crust formed at a superfast spreading rate

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• COVER PAGE
• PUBLISHER'S NOTES
• ABSTRACT
• SCHEDULE FOR EXPEDITIONS 309 and 312
• INTRODUCTION
• SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
• DRILLING STRATEGY
  • Contingency Plans Should Drilling Difficulties Arise in Hole 1256D
• LOGGING STRATEGY
  • Triple Combination Tool String
  • Formation MicroScanner–Dipole Sonic Imager Tool String
  • Ultrasonic Borehole Imager
  • Borehole Magnetometer
  • Three-Component Well Seismic Tool
• SAMPLING STRATEGY
• REFERENCES
• TABLES
  • Table T1.
  • Table T2.
• FIGURES
  • Figure F1.
  • Figure F2.
  • Figure F3.
  • Figure F4.
  • Figure F5.
  • Figure F6.
  • Figure F7.
  • Figure F8.
  • Figure F9.
  • Figure F10.
  • Figure F11.
• SITE SUMMARIES
  • Site 1256
  • Site GUATB-03A
  • Site GUATB-03B
  • Hole 504B
• EXPEDITION SCIENTISTS AND SCIENTIFIC PARTICIPANTS
  • Expedition 309 (updated 11 July 2005)
  • Expedition 312 (updated 21 October 2005)

Date posted: 22 June 2005

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