Associate Foreign Minister, Rt Hon Simon Upton, today
applauded the pioneering research completed this week by
the New Zealand led Cape Roberts Project in
Antarctica.
Drilling at the Cape Roberts site reached a
record depth of 939 metres below the sea floor, 239 m
beyond its planned depth. The research team, headed by New
Zealand scientist Dr Peter Barrett, involves 80
Scientists, drillers and camp support staff from the USA,
New Zealand, Italy, Germany, Australia, UK and the
Netherlands.
Mr Upton said, "these experiments have been
the most important that New Zealand has ever led in
Antarctica. This is crucial cutting edge science and helps
us piece together the formation of the Antarctic Continent
and gives us hard data by which to evaluate current
phenomena like Climate Change".
"Given the environmental,
and technical challenges these scientists have to work
under, what they have achieved is remarkable. It has
again demonstrated that New Zealand scientists, working
in collaboration with the best in the world, were at the
forefront of Antarctic Science.
The drill hole records
cycles of Antarctic climate in the period from 16 to around
34 million years ago, providing fundamental data on the
behaviour of large ice sheets. In drilling deeper than
planned, the project also cored, at 823 metres below the sea
floor, into 300 million-year-old sandstone. Scientists hope
that clues in the sandstone will provide an age for the
beginning of the giant West Antarctic Rift System.
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