The Mohole: a Crustal Journey and Mantle Quest

Workshop participants will begin developing a roadmap for the technology development and the project implementation plan that are necessary to achieve our deep drilling objectives.

Participants will also identify a limited (2 to 3) number of potential MoHole sites in the Pacific (i.e., in fast-spread crust), where the scientific community will focus geophysical site survey efforts over the next few years. Selecting drilling sites is essential to clearly identify the range of water depths, drilling target depths and temperatures that we anticipate, and better constrain the technological options that should be developed and implemented to drill and log the MoHole. These discussions will be held jointly between ocean lithosphere specialists, marine geophysicists, and drilling engineers, with the aim of identifying the best possible sites in fast-spread crust given our current geological, geophysical and technological knowledge and expertise. 

Information on application, accommodation and travel to Kanazawa are available at :

http://earth.s.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/~Mohole/