Conference on Marine Geology and Scientific Ocean Drilling – Planet Ocean Montpellier

Planet Ocean Montpellier – Allée Ulysse – Odysseum – Montpellier

On Thursday, April 21, at 7:00 p.m., the Planet Ocean Aquarium and MUSE's KIM Sea & Coast are offering a free lecture (registration required, see below) on the topic of "Marine Geology, Scientific Ocean Drilling," given by Benoît Ildefonse from the Montpellier Geosciences Laboratory.

The conference "Marine Geology, Scientific Ocean Drilling" draws on recent findings from the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) in the oceanic crust to examine the processes involved in crust formation at ocean ridges. After reviewing the methods used in marine geology, the speaker will briefly explain how ocean drilling works. Benoît Ildefonse will then present some of the results of drilling expeditions at ridges, as well as the difficulties sometimes encountered when drilling up to 1,500 meters below the ocean floor. Finally, he will discuss future challenges, in particular the "MoHole to the Mantle" project, which aims to reach and sample the Earth's mantle beneath the Pacific crust at a depth of 6 km.

The speaker: Benoît ILDEFONSE is director of the Montpellier Geosciences Laboratory. He joined the CNRS in Montpellier in 1991, after completing a thesis in structural geology in Lyon in 1987 and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He works on the formation and evolution of the oceanic crust through the petrological, petrophysical, and microstructural study of the rocks that compose it. Involved in scientific ocean drilling programs (ODP, then IODP) since 1997, he has participated in six drilling expeditions on ocean ridges.

https://www.planetoceanworld.fr/conference-biodiversite-21avril/

Time and place: Thursday , April 21, 2022, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (Reception from 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The conference is no longer accessible after 7:30 p.m. Approximate duration) – Planet Ocean Montpellier, Allée Ulysse, Odysseum

Free admission upon registration. Limited seating available. Click here to register.