Friday, May 3, 2013

Logged to 1548.6 feet, glassy pahoehoe toe

Over the last two days we logged 81.9 ft of core boxes to a depth of 1548.6 ft.  We are also in the process of moving logged core boxes into storage, and arranging for some preliminary chemical analyses of a few flow units from (mostly) the upper portion of the hole.

Below is the glassy toe of a pahoehoe flow lobe, measuring ~5 cm across:
 Although some of the glass has been altered, this lobe contains plenty of fresh glass as well.  We haven't seen all that much fresh glass among the flows in this hole, but when we see it we take small samples of the glass for future analysis.

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