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Caribbean Sea Drilling Sites - Twelve drilling sites were proposed in the Caribbean Sea for Leg Fifteen of the Deep Sea Drilling Project which is being conducted by Scripps Institution of Oceanography. N. Terence Edgar, of Scripps, and John B. Saunders, of Texaco Trinidad Inc., cruise co-chief scientists for the expedition, plan to drill sites in the Venezuela and Columbia Basins utilizing a new technology (re-entry) that permits, in up to 15,000 feet of water, the engineers to pull up the drill string, replace a worn out bit and put the pipe back in the same hole on the ocean floor. Three sites - No. 3 in the Cariaco Trench, No. 5 on the Aves Swell, and No. 8 in the Venezuela Basin - will be drilled primarily to investigate the chemical properties of the cores and the water contained within the sediment. The interstitial or pore waters are instrumental in the formation of minerals and changes in sediment character after burial under the ocean floor. Cruise Operations Manager for the expedition will be Roy E. Anderson, of ESSO Exploration Inc., New York City. 14 October 1970

Caribbean Sea Drilling Sites - Twelve drilling sites were proposed in the Caribbean Sea for Leg Fifteen of the Deep Sea Dr...