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USGS Coastal Carolina Project 2001 - Kure Beach

Coastal Carolina Project 2001 - Kure Beach
Drilling Photos

• Wireline core rig set up to collect continuous core
• Gene Cobb III handling borehole geophysical logging equipment
• Manuel Canabal pulling the inner core barrel to retrieve the core
• Jean Self-Trail, Ellen Seefelt, and Beth Wrege washing core sample
• Measuring washed core
• Wilma Aleman photographing continuous core prior to cutting and boxing
• Ellen Seefelt measuring and documenting secured core
• Jean Self-Trail writing paleontological and stratigraphic analyses
• Beth Wrege and Jean Self-Trail writing hydrological descriptions and age correlations
   

• Core Samples

• Calcareous Nannofossils

• Dinoflagellate cysts

Wireline core rig set up to collect continuous core

Gene Cobb III handling borehole geophysical logging equipment

Manuel Canabal pulling the inner core barrel to retrieve the core

Jean Self-Trail, Ellen Seefelt, and Beth Wrege washing core sample

Measuring washed core

Wilma Aleman photographing continuous core prior to cutting and boxing

Ellen Seefelt measuring and documenting secured core

Jean Self-Trail writing paleontological and stratigraphic analyses

Beth Wrege and Jean Self-Trail writing hydrological descriptions and age correlations

Drilling photographs by Beth Wrege, USGS, C.Timothy Hanna, USGS Retired, and Bill Harris, UNC-W.

Core Samples

Click on the formation name or image for a larger photograph and more information. All formation names are provisional and are subject to change.
Flanner Beach	Pungo River	Castle Hayne
Unconformity	Glauconite and Calcite Sands	Black Creek

Core sample photographs by Beth Wrege.

Calcareous Nannofossils

Click on the algae name or thumbnail for a full view of the photograph.
Marthasterites furcatus	Microrhabdulus decoratus	Reinhardtites biperforatus	Stoverius achylosus

Calcareous nannofossils are the fossilized remains of golden-brown marine algae. The name (i.e. Marthasterites furcatus) is the genus and species name. These specimens are late Turonian in age.

Calcareous nannofossil photographs by Jean Self-Trail.

Dinoflagellate cysts

Wilma Aleman preparing samples in the lab	Deflandrea (new species)	Saturnodinium pansum	Tuberculodinium vancampoae
	Specimen is from the lower Paleocene (121.75 ft depth).	Specimens are from the upper Oligocene (83.2 ft depth.

Photos are all at the same magnification. The scale bar in the middle image is 40 micrometers; the scale applies for all three photos.

Dinoflagellate cyst photographs by Colleen McCartan.