IODP Expedition 386

Japan Trench Paleoseismology

Tracking past earthquakes in the sediment record

Exp. 386 blog posts

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The Giant Piston Core (GPC) – How does it work?

On the face of it, the GPC is a long tube with a big weight at the top, but it is so much more than that.
The GPC can collect up to 40 meters of core in a single deployment and on this expedition at a depth of 8023m.

by ECORD 27th May 2021

Fight against the Kuroshio

The Kuroshio Current is the western boundary current flowing northward along the Asian continental margin from the subtropical to the subarctic NW Pacific. Kuroshio means black (‘kuro’) stream (‘shio’) in Japanese owing to the black colour of its surface water.

by ECORD 25th May 202125th May 2021

How do I sample sediments every day during EXP386?

In the beginning, everything felt very new and it took a while to adjust to the sampling routines. As time went on the sampling methods became more familiar, and carrying out the sampling of the sediments step by step is now second nature.

by ECORD 21st May 202121st May 2021

Breaking records: Deepest of the Deep

14 May 2021: Exp. 386 reached two new depth records in Scientific Ocean Drilling & Coring breaking water depth record from 1978 (DSDP Leg 60 Site 461) and the deepest sub-sea level sample record from 2012 (IODP Exp. 343).

by ECORD 18th May 202119th May 2021

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The IODP Expedition 386 Japan Trench Paleoseismology
April 2021

This expedition is being jointly implemented by the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD), Science Operator (ESO),
and the Institute for Marine-Earth Exploration and Engineering (MarE3)
within the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC).