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Coastal Carolina Project 2001 - Kure Beach
Program
The USGS began drilling a deep corehole at the Fort Fisher Historic Site near Kure Beach, North Carolina, on May 21, 2001. The drilling is expected to reach basement (estimated around 1,500 ft) sometime in mid July. The project is a collaborative effort between the USGS and several State agencies and universities including the North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources (NC-DENR), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), The University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNC-W), Duke University (DU), East Carolina University (ECU), Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University (VT), and the University of Delaware (UD).
More information about the program can be found on the North Carolina Coastal Plain Earth Science Coalition planning document prepared by W. Burleigh Harris, UNC-Wilmingon (41K MS Word document).
Analyses of hydrologic, stratigraphic, paleontologic, and seismic data will be performed in the corehole and on the samples and core that is recovered from drilling. Following the completion of the drilling, hydrologic and seismic monitoring instrumentation will be placed in the corehole.
The primary stratigraphic zone for which data will be obtained within this corehole is of Tertiary and Cretaceous age (3 MY to 135 MY).
Modified from John R. Stacy, USGS
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U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Last update: Saturday, May 7 2005, 11:02:37 AM
URL: http://nc.water.usgs.gov/ccp/2001/program.html
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