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The Deep Sea Drilling Project is about to launch phase IV of its drilling operations, known as the International Phase of Ocean Drilling (IPOD). Plans for the first year of IPOD are well under way and a preliminary drilling schedule for the first four years has been drawn up. At this stage it is appropriate to inform the scientific community in general of these plans and to invite comment and suggestions. As in the past the scientific planning is carried out by the Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES). This organisation, international from the outset, will through its various panels continue to provide scientific advice to DSDP for the IPOD programme as it has to the previous phases of drilling.
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Williams, C. Scientific plans for deep sea drilling. Nature 259, 83–86 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/259083a0
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