Significant Progress in Namco International Continental Scientific Drilling Program in China

TapTechNews July 13th news, according to CCTV reports, the key scientific research task of China's second Qinghai-Tibet scientific expedition, the Namco International Continental Scientific Drilling Program has made significant progress.

After more than a month of drilling lake-bottom sediments, the scientific expedition team has carried out drilling in seven boreholes. As of 16:00 on July 13th, the drilling depth of the seventh hole reached 408.2 meters, refreshing the deepest record of lake drilling in China.

TapTechNews note: The Namco International Continental Scientific Drilling Program is jointly implemented by the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and many scientists and drilling technicians from Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, etc. There are 70 scientific expedition team members. Namco is located in the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and is the second largest lake in Tibet. (The lake surface is about 15,476 feet above sea level, and the maximum water depth is about 328 feet.)

Experts said that the lake-bottom sediments of Namco are more than 700 meters thick, which will provide new scientific evidence for carrying out research on climate and environmental changes in the past one million years on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and has an important role in studying the climate and environmental changes in the northern Tibetan lake area.

The person in charge of the scientific expedition, Wang Junbo, a researcher at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced that the scientific expedition team began to drill lake cores in Namco on June 6th. If the weather conditions are ideal, it is expected to last for a few more days to end.