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Glomar Challenger
''Glomar Challenger'' was a deep sea research and scientific drilling vessel for oceanography and marine geology studies. It was designed by Global Marine Inc. (now Transocean Inc.) specifically for a long term contract with the American National Science Foundation and University of California Scripps Institution of Oceanography and built by Levingston Shipbuilding Company in Orange, Texas.〔(Ocean Drilling Program: Glomar Challenger drillship )〕 Launched on March 23, 1968,〔 the vessel was owned and operated by the Global Marine Inc. corporation. ''Glomar Challenger'' was given its name as a tribute to the accomplishments of the oceanographic survey vessel . Glomar is a truncation of Global Marine.
== Accomplishments ==
Starting from August 1968, the ship embarked on a 15-year-long scientific expedition, the Deep Sea Drilling Program, criss-crossing the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between South America and Africa and drilling core samples at specific locations. When the age of the samples was determined by paleontologic and isotopic dating studies, this provided conclusive evidence for the seafloor spreading hypothesis, and, consequently, for plate tectonics.
In 1970, when doing research in the Mediterranean Sea under the supervision of Kenneth Hsu, geologists aboard the vessel brought up drill cores containing gypsum, anhydrite, rock salt, and various other evaporite minerals that often form from drying of brine or seawater. These were the first solid evidence for the ancient desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea, the Messinian salinity crisis.
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