Eleven thousand hundred meters. This is the depth of a Chinese shipyard launched in the Taklamakan desert, in the heart of Xinjiang. Named Shenditake 1, this drilling must drill a dozen distinct geological strata to reach rocks of the Cretaceous, 65 to 145 million years old, never observed directly at such [...]
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Eleven thousand hundred meters. This is the depth of a Chinese shipyard launched in the Taklamakan desert, in the heart of Xinjiang. Named Shenditake 1, this drilling must drill a dozen distinct geological strata to reach rocks of the Cretaceous, 65 to 145 million years old, never observed directly at such [...]