European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes april by Walter Sullivan new York times in one of Arthur Conan Doyles the mad decides that the Earth is alive and its crust is the creatures he drills eight Miles through the crust in Scotland and reaches a evil smelling surface into which he drives a Sharp the Earth emits a howl in which menace and the outraged majesty of nature All blended into one hideous no one has yet penetrated quite eight Al though scientists have Long dreamed of sampling the crust at those Depths in Hope of finding answers to such Basic mysteries As the origin of continents and of the forces that cause them to Rise and fall thousands of it is at such Depths that High pressure and temperature radically alter the rocks and produce Ore some of which later reach the the soviet Union has almost reached the depth of challengers fictitious a Hole on the Kola Peninsula East of last the russians began drilling a 9mile Hole near Krivoy in the Southern these and other soviet drilling combined with the use of underground nuclear explosions for deep seismic Are part of an intensive Effort to learn More about resources that underlie the soviet especially the presence of metallic ores deep below the surface of the similar projects Are also under Way in other coun a few weeks West Germany announced plans to bore nine Miles beneath the Black Forest and to Drill another Hole near the czech until the drilling of the Kola the deepest manmade Hole was the Bertha Rogers Oil Well in drilling there stopped at a depth of six Miles when the Drill penetrated molten while a program of Continental deep drilling has been pro posed for the United it seems destined to lag considerably behind those of the russians and Ger the most ambitious proposal is a 6mile Hole in the appalachians near the Georgia South Carolina the proposed site is a Short distance East of the Brevard zone that skirts the Western suburbs of some geologists believe the zone Marks the Lead ing Edge of a slab of Distant origin that was pushed Over the continents rim As Africa approached the East coast several Hundred million years the project could help confirm or deny this hypothesis and identify the original Continental material be Neath As Well As seek deep lying Oil according to Barry director of Columbia University Lamont Doherty geological the million project is probably too expensive for the current climate of tight Federal budget Progress will also depend on the extent to which the Oil and minerals industries provide financial and technical Raleigh is chairman of an 18university consortium called deep observation and sampling of the earths Continental last july the consortium submitted a proposal for the project to the National science in the idea was endorsed in a congressional the consortium report cited an address 90 years ago by Grove Karl president of the geological society of outlining major unanswered questions about the they included the nature of the Boundary Between continents and Ocean the origin of whether they float on soft foundations or Are Rig idly Why they Rise and and whether they Are Only the last question has been the consortium report the continents Are constantly subject to dismemberment and the report suggested a number of drilling including the one near the Brevard and several less ambitious the consortium will sponsor a workshop april 29 in Houston to consider such pro the proposals will be reviewed by a scientific advisory committee headed by Francis Stehli of the University of chairman of a National research Council committee that has recommended development of a deep drilling it favored obtaining Complete or Core of the penetrated some Oil Well specialists believe this will not be citing sophisticated new with instruments lowered Down the to determine Many properties of the it is also possible in some cases to punch out Small samples from the Hole one proposed project of special interest to he said in a recent Telephone is the Hole being drilled into californian Salton sea rift he pointed out is the Only Active zone of crustal spreading in the United the rift has already opened the Gulf of califor and to the North it is gradually widening the Imperial which holds the Salton sea and some of Southern californian richest irrigated farm the spreading similar to one that is gradually widening the Atlantic Ocean along the mid Atlantic generates abnormally High tem As a result the Imperial Valley has been exploited As a source of geothermal Energy on the Border with at least four Miles of sediment cover the Valley floor and it has been estimated that at the base of the sediment the temperature is High enough to melt supporters of the proposed project Hope it will be possible for the Drill to penetrate to the re Gion where the temperature is 752 degrees Fahr the Bottom of the Kola Hole was 400 degrees the Drill pipe was made of an aluminium Alloy that loses its strength above 230 degrees fahrenheit but the russians believe a titanium Alloy May allow them to reach Depths As great As a dozen where Rock Distant from local sources of heat should be at 750 a possible drilling site of special interest to a an authority on movements along californian san Andreas would be one into that deep crack in the crust where inexorable Northwest sliding of the Pacific floor is dragging with it much of californian including the entire los Angeles there is no direct knowledge of deep seated conditions that determine when and where the fault will causing earthquakes Large and the in according to include the state of stress and temperature within the its chemical Crystal state and electrical its and the pressure of fluid within its any one of these factors could provide critical clues to the imminence of a major push to the Core instead of rotating an eight Lelong Muddy water is pushed Down aluminium Alloy pipes and forced through a Turbo turning a bit at the water and Rock Are returned through space outside the which is narrower than the in this soviet engineers bored earths deepest p North x the wandering bit As depicted from Core bit wanders from a vertical line at successive Given Here in it moves a total horizontal distance of 840