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The ocean bottom—a region nearly 2. 5 times greater than the total land area of the Earth—is a vast frontier that even today is
The ocean bottom—a region nearly 2. 5 times greater than the total land area of the Earth—is a vast frontier that even today is
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The ocean bottom—a region nearly 2. 5 times greater than the total land area of the Earth—is a vast frontier that even today is largely unexplored and uncharted. Until about a century ago, the deep-ocean floor was completely
inaccessible
, hidden beneath waters averaging over 3, 600 meters deep. Totally without fight and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earth’ s surface, the deep-ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans, in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of
outer space
.
Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks and sediments for over a century, the first detailed global investigation of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1968, with the beginning of the National Science Foundation’ s Deep Sea Drilling Project(DSDP). Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDP’ s drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady position on the ocean’ s surface and drill in very deep waters ,
extracting
samples of sediments and rock from the ocean floor.
The Glomar Challenger completed 96 voyages in a 15-year research program that ended in November 1983. During this time, the vessel logged 600, 000 kilometers and took almost 20, 000 core samples of seabed sediments and rocks at 624 drilling sites around the world. The Glomar Challenger’ s core samples have allowed geologists to reconstruct what the planet looked like hundreds of millions of years ago and to calculate what it will probably look like millions of years in the future. Today, largely on the
strength
of evidence gathered during the Glomar Challenger’ s voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree on the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift that explain many of the geological processes that shape the Earth.
The cores of sediment drilled by the Glomar Challenger have also yielded information critical to understanding the world’ s past climates. Deep-ocean sediments provide a climatic record stretching back hundreds of millions of years, because
they
are largely isolated from the mechanical erosion and the intense chemical and biological activity that rapidly destroy much land-based evidence of past climates. This record has already provided insights into the patterns and causes of past climatic change—information that may be used to predict future climates.
Deep-ocean sediments provide better information about the world’ s past climate because they______.
选项
A、are well protected
B、have land-based evidence
C、are in isolation
D、have a longer history
答案
A
解析
本题考查事实细节。根据文章第四段第二句“Deep-ocean sediments provide a cli—matic record stretching back hundreds of millions of years,because they are largely isolatedfrom the mechanical erosion and the intense chemical and biological activity that rapidly destroymuch land—based evidence of past climates.”可知,深海沉积物提供了一个追溯到几亿年前的气候记录,因为他们在很大程度上远离机械侵蚀和强烈的化学和生物活性,而那些会快速摧毁过去气候的路基证据。由此可推出,答案是A。
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