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What's it like in Iceland today?

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weather forecast,

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WEGA and Bath Geol Soc lectures

Lectures next term:

12th Jan. Geology lecture: Volcanoes & Society (WEGA, Bristol University) Depart 1800, return 2130

4th Feb: Bath Geological Society: Dinosaurs & giraffes! (Depart 1815, return 2130) 

9 February: Geology lecture: Impacts from Space (WEGA, Bristol University) Depart 1800, return 2130

3rd March: Bath Geological Society: Tectonics: Did the Earth move for you? Depart 1815, return 2130)

8 March:  Geology lecture: Volcanic plumes impact on climate change and air traffic (WEGA, Bristol University) Depart 1800, return 2130

A new 'Mohole' project

Scientists will set out this week to drill a hole into the Indian Ocean floor to try to get below the Earth's crust for the first time. They want to reach the MOHO (the boundary between the crust and the mantle).

They want to sample rock from the planet's mantle - its deep interior.

In the process, the researchers hope to check their assumptions about the materials from which the crust itself is made.

It will probably take several years to drop the full 5 to 5.5km, says co-team leader, Prof Chris MacLeod.

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"The science is approved and we have funding for  this initial two-month investigation. But we will need to come back and we may not complete the task until the 2020s."

There have been several attempts to drill into the mantle, but none has yet succeeded.

They will be drilling into the Indian Ocean MOR

The textbook explanation is that the Moho draws the line between the crust and the mantle: a demarcation between familiar igneous surface rocks - such as granites, basalts and gabbros - and those of the interior peridotites.

But Prof MacLeod suspects the discontinuity could also describe in places the depth to which water has managed to penetrate into the peridotites to produce a different type of rock known as serpentinite.

For more information click
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34967750