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While all of this is going on, the Americans had been doing some progress of their own as well. In 1974, the Lone Star Producing Company started drilling for oil in Washita County, Oklahoma. They never found oil but they were able to dig the deepest hole existing on the planet at that moment.

Deepwater development and installation technology has come a long way since its start. 

The mantle is 1,800 miles thick, and makes up a whopping 84% of our planet’s volume, according to the author.

After 60 years of trying, geologists finally pried rocks from Earths upper mantle. Thats huge for so many reasons.

A record-breaking drilling attempt, which dug more than a kilometer into an underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean, has given scientists a treasure trove of rocks to study for clues to Earths inner workings.

Geoscientists drilled more than 1 kilometer below the oceans floor to collect an unprecedented amount of rock from the Earths mantle.

A group of scientists working from a drilling ship off the coast of the Azores have collected the first-ever core samples taken from Earth’s mantle, the molten area that surrounds the planet’s core.

Geoscientists drilled more than 1 kilometer below the oceans floor to collect an unprecedented amount of rock from the Earths mantle.

On April 12, 2023, geologists, microbiologists and other scientists sailed to the Atlantis Massif, a 14,000-foot underwater mountain sitting on the floor of

China has started drilling over a 10,000-metre (10 km) hole into the Earth’s crust for exploring the unknown territory of the planet. Heavy equipment, weighing 2,000-tonne, will dig the country’s possibly deepest-ever borehole in the Tarim Basin in the Xinjiang region