China has begun digging for what will happen The deepest pit ever dug in the country and second in the world ranking in all history. At least officially, the purpose of this project is purely scientific, the study of the subsoil until we reach the rocks of the Cretaceous system, which dates back 145 million years. However, other sources do not exclude some mining intentions.
In one way or another, the responsible of the project, which started to be implemented last Tuesday, announced that; They plan to reach a depth of more than 10,000 metersThis meant getting very close to the 12,226m, scientific hole in Kola (Russia), the deepest pit ever dug by humans.
The machine hopes to arrive in about two years, and as reported by Bloomberg, identify mineral resources and help assess environmental risks such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
The rig is located in the desert landscapes of the Tarim Basin in the Xianjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China. Sources from the team behind the project told the official Chinese news agency Xinhua that “drilling a well more than 10,000 meters deep is a bold attempt to study unknown regions on the planet and expand the frontiers of human understanding.”
The record is in Russia
Although impressively deep, the hole will not be the largest man-made on Earth. This title is for him. coke super hole, on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia. The project, stretching from 1970 to just after the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991), managed to descend 11,034 meters below sea level.
The team found that rocks deep within the Earth are much wetter than they expected. Previously, scientists believed that water did not penetrate the rock that deeply. They also hoped to find a layer of basalt beneath the granite on the mainland, since this is what is found in oceanic crust. Instead, they found that underneath the igneous granite was metamorphic granite. Since the continental crust is entirely granite, this Evidence for Plate Tectonics, it’s a theory that has only recently started to be accepted when they start digging wells.
Digging the soil doesn’t always go so smoothly. ORn In the 1960s, the American team had sunk 183 meters below the seafloor.The project, which cut 13 meters of basalt in the upper layer of the oceanic crust, was canceled due to poor management and financial problems.
“The construction difficulty of the drilling project It can be compared to driving a large truck on two thin steel cables.Sun Jinsheng, an academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, told the state news agency Xinhua about the new project in this country.
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