https://it-news.uk/tags/geology/ Recent content in Geology on IT News Hugo en-us Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/chinas-deepest-continental-science-borehole-cretaceous/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/chinas-deepest-continental-science-borehole-cretaceous/ <p>There&rsquo;s a hole in northeastern China that goes deeper into the continent than any science borehole in history. It&rsquo;s not for oil or gas. It&rsquo;s for reading the planet&rsquo;s memory.</p> <p>The Songke-2 well, drilled into the heart of the Songliao Basin in Heilongjiang Province, punches through more than eight kilometers of rock that accumulated over 100 million years. Every meter of that sedimentary column represents roughly 10,000 years of Earth&rsquo;s history. The team behind it pulled out over 8,000 meters of continuous rock core — a feat no other continental scientific drilling project has matched.</p>