Mysteries of the Deep

A groundbreaking chronicle of scientific ocean drilling-a crowning achievement of the twentieth century-and how it shaped our knowledge of Earth’s past.

Under the radar-or, rather, sonar-of most people and many scientists, for the last six decades ships have plied the world’s oceans, mining the seafloor for its secrets-and quietly resolving confounding geological mysteries. Continental drift and plate tectonics. The origin of the Hawaiʻian Islands. The erstwhile disappearance of the M…