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Introduction—Scientific Drilling in the Indian Ocean: An Earth System Process Perspective

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The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) addresses the fundamental questions about Earth’s climate, deep life, geodynamics, and geohazards, through Earth’s climatic, biological, chemical, and geological history buried beneath the ocean floor. Scientific Ocean drilling allows researchers to access these records and explore, analyze, postulate, and test hypotheses that address how our planet evolves on local-to-global spatial scales and on decadal-to-millennial time scales. Based on key scientific challenges, deep sea drilling in the Indian Ocean addressed the broad questions related to palaeoceanographic, tectonic and climatic controls on the Indian Monsoon, evolution of the mid-ocean ridges, formation of large igneous provinces, continental rifting and related deposition, subduction related earthquakes and arc volcanism and how it had influenced the development of deep biosphere.

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to acknowledge co-chiefs and scientific support teams of each of the IODP expeditions discussed above for their significant scientific contributions in form of respective scientific proceedings. The technical summaries presented above are primarily drawn from the Proceedings volumes for respective IODP expeditions (http://publications.iodp.org/proceedings). Accordingly, IODP publications portal and the JOIDES Resolution are acknowledged. Ministry of Earth Sciences, India is thanked for the support towards production of this volume. This is NCPOR contribution no. B-7/2019-20.

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Pandey, D.K., Nair, N., Ravichandran, M. (2020). Introduction—Scientific Drilling in the Indian Ocean: An Earth System Process Perspective. In: Pandey, D., Ravichandran, M., Nair, N. (eds) Dynamics of the Earth System: Evolution, Processes and Interactions. Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40659-2_1

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