Here are some USGS Web pages with more information on drilling and coring and Anywhere:
National Ice Core Laboratory
The U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) is a facility in the Denver Federal Center, Colorado, for long-term storage, curating, and studying ice cores recovered from the polar regions of the world with information on public tours.
(Score: 1.380)
Drilling technique
Brief description of the coring system and crew used to obtain cores for geological research in the Eastern Region as one of the specialized capabilities of USGS teams.
(Score: 1.000)
Core Research Center
Overview of the Core Research Center (CRC) in Denver for preserving valuable rock cores for permanent storage and making the cores available for examination and testing. Includes links to services, well reports, and resources.
(Score: 0.690)
Sample and data rescue at the Core Research Center
Fact sheet on the Core Research Center, a permanent free-access core repository in Denver. The Center saves cores threated with destruction or disposal, prepares them for curation, and makes them available to the interested public.
(Score: 0.690)
Lake Clark sockeye salmon research projects
Summary of research on salmon fish resources in the Ilamna/Lake Clark area in Alaska with links to scientific projects, Native Alaskan intern program, lake core analysis, radio telemetry, genetics, subsistence fishing, and research staff.
(Score: 0.647)
National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Legacy Data Archive
Access is provided to seismic data, image files of seismic data, well logs, and cores of petroleum reserves in Alaska from the National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska, (NPRA) Legacy Data Archive.
(Score: 0.647)
Effects of wastewater on forested wetlands
Study of the effects of the practice of cycling municipal nutrient-enriched wastewater effluent from holding ponds through forested wetlands. Studies were in the Cypiere Perdue Swamp, Louisiana, and the Drummond Bog, Wisconsin.
(Score: 0.488)
Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem Change and History Project
Site for the Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem Change and History Project with links to bay coring, land use impacts, radiometric dates, sea level, bibliography, team, and projects information.
(Score: 0.475)
Kansas reservoir sediment studies
Report of completed reservoir sediment studies in Kansas using a combination of bathymetric surveying, sediment coring, chemical analysis, and statistical analysis to understand the quantity and quality of deposited sediment.
(Score: 0.451)
Scientific drilling in Long Valley, California: What will we learn?
Description of phase III of a drilling project at Long Valley Exploratory Well located on Long Valley Calderas resurgent dome to monitor changing conditions beneath the dome. (Document in PDF format.)
(Score: 0.359)
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Definition:
Cutting into the subsurface, for example into underground strata or into a tree trunk, to remove material for examination.
Scope note:
Intended for broad use wherever coring is done. For example, taking a core sample from a tree or ice mass as well as a core from geological strata or rocks. The combination of this term with other terms will convey the context of the activity.
Used for:
core sampling, coring, ice core sampling
