Where is being drilled NOW?
Wilkes Land
The Wilkes Land Glacial history expedition has started in Wellington, New Zealand on 4 Jan 2010 and returns to Hobart,Tasmania on9 March. Off the coast of Antarctica, cores are currently taken from the seafloor to investigate when and why the ice sheet started growing on Antarctica and how the ice sheet has grown and melted during the last 35 million years.
Henk Brinkhuis (co-chief) and Peter Bijl are sailing now during IODP Expedition 318, Wilkes Land Antarctica
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