Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Logged to 931.5 feet, another tricky transitional unit

We were able to log core boxes to 931.5 ft today, 62.9 ft of material that was difficult to interpret.  After finishing logging an intrusion and sampling some glassy scoria, we ran into another unit that showed both characteristics of pahoehoe and ʻaʻa.  On top of that there was a lot of extra "cave-in" material due to rock falling in around the drill string at the time this core was recovered, so we had to proceed slowly and carefully while logging today.  Eventually we were able to determine the top, bottom, and internal boundaries of this transitional unit and get it logged.  Tomorrow's boxes contain rock that is quite different but also challenging to interpret for different reasons, stay tuned to hear what we manage to figure out about these rocks. 

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