We rock the dock

Today we processed rock core to a depth of 947 ft, and the trays that were dropped off at the end of the day will carry us over the 1000 ft mark.  As always the rocks were interesting to interpret, but I forgot to take a picture of anything photogenic.  Instead, here's a look at yesterday's lineup of full core trays at our loading dock:

This isn't even all the trays we processed yesterday, there are more on our work table that you see on the far left.  Each core tray is six feet long and has a painted top end, so the drill crew can extract the rock into the tray in proper vertical orientation.  The trays also have circular foam end pieces to keep the rocks from sliding out, and tray covers to prevent rocks from bouncing out of the trays during transport to UH Hilo from PTA.