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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 Earth's upper mantle. That's 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 Earth's inner workings.