英美等国正在筹建一个全球性的海底地质观测网，以便深入研究地壳以下的地球内部构造。这一观察网将由分布于全球的60个海底观测点组成。各观测点都安装了由海底探测设备和配套的水上钢制浮标组成的装置。预定对世纪初开始收集观测数据。科学家们对这项耗资约1．67亿美元的工程 Britain and the United States and other countries are preparing a global seabed geological observation network in order to study in depth the earth’s interior structure below the crust. This observatory network will consist of 60 sub-sea observation points distributed around the world. Each observation point has been installed by the sea detection equipment and supporting the composition of the water steel buoy device. Scheduled to collect observations from the beginning of the century. Scientists spent about $ 167 million on the project