The high-profile Chicxulub Crater project concluded in May 2016
with unprecedented press coverage. The
DOSECC team of engineers and drillers was proud to be chosen as the drilling
company of choice for this important mission which sought to shed light on the
crater left by the asteroid that led to a global mass extinction of over 70% of
life on earth.
This project studies what geophysicist and expedition leader
Joanna Morgan called "The most important event in the last 100 million
years." The project was covered by
the BBC, NPR, Nature, Discover Magazine, and Scientific American, among many
others. The team worked for six weeks off the coast of the Mexican Yucatan
Peninsula and drilled through hundreds of meters of ocean and 600 meters of
sediment, ultimately reaching 1300 meters below the ocean floor to pull a
quality core sample.
The sample will be frozen to protect potential DNA samples and
shipped to the US for CT scanning and evaluation. Then it will be moved to a
laboratory in Germany where it will be evaluated by scientists from around the
world. Read more about press coverage and this project at http://dosecc.com/
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