新世纪的大洋钻探

较为详细地介绍了大洋钻探计划（ODP）的科学目标，研究主题及其重要的科学意义，大洋钻探计划是当今举世瞩目的国际性海洋科学研究计划，其前身深海钻探计划（DSDP）孕育了20世纪70年代的地学革命,为“新全球构造理论”－－板块构造学说的发展提供了关键性的证据。自1985年开始的ODP成功地探查了地质历史演化中塑造我们这颗星球并决定了其现今环境状态的各种地质过程，揭示了控制地壳形成，海洋化学，海洋的深部和表面循环的各种地质以及生物圈和环境物理化学间相互作用的复杂性，DSDP和ODP的成功为实施新世纪海洋钻探－综合海洋钻探项目（IODP）的目标铺平了道路，IODP是在21世纪初即将实施的新的大洋钻探计划。

NEW CENTURY OCEAN DRILLING

Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) is the largest and worldwid e attention-attracting international program in the marine science research. The predecessor of ODP is the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) which was pregnant with the “geoscience revolution” in the 1970s and provided the theory of new global tectonics or plate tectonics with key evidence.ODP that started in 1983 has achieved substantive scientific successes: successfully invested the processes that have shaped this planet through geological history and determined its present environmental state.Many discoveries have revealed the complexity of the processes that control particular aspects of crustal formation, chemistry of the oceans, the deep and surface circulation of the ocean, global climate, and the interactions between the biosphere and the physics and chemistry of our environment. Perhaps most importantly, ODP has set the stage for IODP. In this paper, the scientific initiatives, the first areas of emphasis and the new drilling ships for IODP have been introduced.