USGS Coastal Carolina Project 2004 - Hope Plantation

Coastal Carolina Project 2004 - Hope Plantation
Photos

Location
Hope Plantation 64K
Hope Plantation, 3/9/04		 LuAnn Joyner, Hope Plantation chief administrator 52K
LuAnn Joyner is the administrator of Hope Plantation; she and her staff have made the USGS personnel very welcome at the site and have afforded us every hospitality.
Alec 51K
Alec, our guide		 Belinda, staff at Hope Plantation 52K
Belinda has been very supportive in allowing us to use her computer and office to send updates for the web page
Establish drill site
drill rig by fence near Hope Plantation 70K
Drill rig arrives, 3/10/04		 drill rig by fence near Hope Plantation from a distance 54K
drill rig by fence near Hope Plantation 68K drill rig by fence near Hope Plantation from a distance 76K
Three people assembling frame for the on-site tent 100K
Setting up the tent, 3/11/04		 Three people assembling frame for the on-site tent 119K
USGS drill rig and USGS identifier near signs for Hope Plantation 143K
Established drill site, 3/11/04		 USGS drill rig with raised tower 133K
The tower was raised after receiving site clearances, 3/11/04
Close up of drill bit 130K
Drill bit with inner core barrel, 3/11/04		 Close up of drill bit 74K
Drill bit without inner core barrel, 3/24/04
Drilling
Drill bit being inserted 95K
Drilling begins, 3/12/04		 Drilling in the Rain 112K
Drilling continues in the rain (as long as there's no lightning), 3/15/04
Two people in midground by trailer of drills; one person at the drill; fourth person visible to left of drill in background 99K
3/15/04		 working on the drill bit 106K
Little Gene and Casey changing shoe on drill bit to improve recovery in sands, 3/24/04
security tape around drill 99K
Securing the drill after the first round of drilling, 3/25/04		 security tape around drill 101K
Securing the drill after the first round of drilling, 3/25/04
loading equipment 95K
Loading the equipment for departure, 3/25/04		 drill rig, tower lowered, and surrounding equipment 98K
Obtaining GPS elevation at well head, 3/26/04
distance shot of drill, tent, new drill bits, and truck 93K
Setting up for the second round of drilling, 4/2/04		 distance shot of drill, tent, new drill bits, and truck 72K
4/2/04
photo of drill rig 80K
4/3/04		 photo of three men standing over the drill bits 96K
4/8/04
setting up drill 84K
Returned to site in June to install piezometer, 6/16/04		 setting up drill 90K
6/16/04
setting up drill 90K
6/16/04		 setting up drill 89K
6/16/04
Cores
photograph of core being measured on a wooden table 59K
A shelly section of the Beaufort Formation, 3/13/04		 photograph of Jean Self-Trail standing in front of core samples from the Cape Fear 91K
Jean Self-Trail contemplating even more core from the Cape Fear, 3/14/04
Beth Wrege washing core 119K
Washing core, 3/15/04
"If it were raining just a bit more we might not need to wash the core."		 photograph of Jean Self-Trail measuring core 68K
Jean Self-Trail measuring an interval of Cape Fear core in the tray so it can be sliced up and boxed, 3/16/04
photograph of core samples on the work table 62K
Core recovered from below 270 feet (near the base of the Cape Fear) showing the clays and interfingered sands, 3/16/04		 close up photograph of core samples shown in photograph Core-BaseCF 64K
Close-up of the core shown in the earlier interval. The sands range from very fine to pebble-sized. There is a nodule of pyrite in the sand interval and Cape Fear colored-clay balls in the underlying silt matrix, 3/16/04
photograph of Rob Weems on the drill rig 94K
The casing coming up the hole, 3/17/04		 photograph of Colleen washing core 87K
The extruded core being washed, 3/17/04
photograph of Casey carrying a loaded core barrel 91K
The reloaded core barrel ready to be connected for the next core recovery, 3/17/04		 Ellen Seefelt standing above a box of core samples to take a straight angle photograph of the contents of the box 94K
Ellen Seefelt taking digital and 35 mm film shots of each boxed set of core samples, 3/18/04
Rob washing core at the drill site in the rain, an umbrella in one hand and a hose in the other 75K
Washing the core in the rain, 3/18/04		 Ellen and others unloading core 103K
3/20/04
Peter Malin and student 107K
3/20/04		 Peter Malin and several of his students at the drill site 103K
3/20/04
Cross section of core showing a shell cast 61K
Shell cast/mold preserved in a very fine uniform dark sand with less than 5% silt. This is not ideal conditions for fossil preservation. Shell casts have not previously been seen in this unit, 3/22/04		 Cross section of core showing a shell cast 69K
Another view showing the shell cast, 3/22/04
Cross section of core showing a shell cast 3/25/04 58K
 Cross section of core showing a shell cast 35K
3/25/04
Core in a core tray, split to show shell casts, tape measure along length of the core 56K
3/25/04		 Cross section of core showing a shell cast, tape measure in foreground 50K
3/25/04
Core in a core tray on a wooden outdoor picnic table with various notebooks and measuring tapes 62K
4/3/04		 boxes of core in the tent 55K
4/4/04
Jean Self-Trail preparing core in the tent 48K
4/4/04		 Jean Self-Trail preparing core in the tent 63K
4/4/04
Close up of core from Run96 79K
4/5/04		 Jean Self-Trail holding a slice of core 96K
4/5/04
boxes of core inside the Hope Plantation building 58K
Boxes of core, 4/5/04		 boxes of core inside the Hope Plantation building 72K
Boxes of core, 4/5/04
fine, sandy core 66K
Fine, sandy core retrieved from "Upper Potomac" aquifer, app. 840 feet, 4/7/04
photo of fossilized root within the core sample 77K
Core from the paleosol zone, 4/10/04		 photo of fossilized root within the core sample, with a measuring tape for scale 71K
4/10/04
photo of fossilized root within the core sample 83K
Fossilized root in paleosol zone, 4/13/04		 photo of fossilized root within the core sample, with a measuring tape for scale 78K
4/13/04
core in the recovery tray ending with a rock the size of the recovered core 68K
A rock impeded progress most of the day 4/14. On Thursday, 4/15, finally recovered the rock that had been blocking the entrance to the core barrel. 4/14/04		 Beth Wrege, photographer, holding 'Rock 2' which had been redrilled during the recovery process 77K
We had two large rocks blocking the core barrel. One the exact size to prevent core recovery is unusual, two is quite rare. The solution is the entire rod had to be tripped (removed) from the hole in order to retrive the rock and resume successful core recovery. 4/16/04
2 trays with section of core 93K
Section of core from 1070ft to 1078ft, conglomorate material 4/17/04		 Two scientists at the table in the tent discussing the project 51K
Eugene Cobbs (driller) and Rob Weems (project chief) confirming that this final core sample is triassic bedrock below weather facies, 4/18/04
slice of core with ruler for scale 83K
Slice of Triassic core from 1089ft		 slice of core with ruler for scale 50K
Slice of Triassic core from 1089ft
Borehole Geophysics
Beth Wrege with the equipment 82K
Drawworks contains 1,000 meters of cable for downhole geophysical logging, 3/14/04 		aligning electronic cord for the probe on the drill rig 90K
electronic probe, 3/18/04
Beth Wrege at the back of the van collecting borehole geophysics data 82K
Beth Wrege collecting borehole geophysical survey data, 4/12/04
Analysis
Looking over the shoulder of Colleen McCarten making entries into log worksheet in three ring binder 47K
Colleen McCartan updating the sample log. Each time a sample is taken from the core for analysis (such as fossil identification, salinity, percent fines determination, etc.) the depth, size, and scientist are recorded, 3/16/04		 Looking over the shoulder of Rob Weems sitting at table with multiple binders, drawing lithologies on paper in clipboard 54K
Rob Weems updating the lithologic log on each cored interval after it is recovered from the core barrel and prior to boxing, 3/16/04
Jean Self-Trail preparing samples for preservation in a UV light box 58K
This is a UV light box. The UV light is used to cure the Slide mounting media (Norland Optical Adhesive 61), 3/18/04		 Close up of the sample slide being removed from a UV light box 42K
Jean Self-Trail removing a cured slide which she will examine under a high-powered microscope to check for nanofossils, Nanofossils are used to age date the formations, 3/18/04
longer shot of sample, UV light box, and table with slide preparation equipment 55K
The preserved slides allow for later processing of the samples. It appears that some of the fossils may degrade if they are not preserved quickly. This is one method that is being studied, 3/18/04		 in the hotel room late at night, examinging slides through a microscope 48K
Burning the midnight oil, 3/18/04
Three scientists at the table in the tent discussing the project 61K
Rob Weems (project chief), Jean Self-Trail (micropaleontologist), Dave Prowell (geologist), and Beth Wrege (hydrologist; not in picture - photographer) discussing formations and aquifers represented at the site, 4/11/04		 Three scientists at the table in the tent discussing the project 56K
Discussion continued, 4/11/04
Miscellaneous
Removing safety tape from drill site 81K
Each day begins at 7AM; the drill crew removes the caution tape from the drill rig and the crew holds a saftey meeting		 Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly (bright yellow, black wingtips), after being rescued from the tent 81K
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly rescued from tent
Four people in a classroom, all the tables covered in core boxes 48K
Visitors examining the core in the Hope Plantation classroom		 Beth Wrege leaned over the core boxes; three other individuals listening to her 54K
Beth Wrege describing core to the visitors
Leaving drill site
filling core hole with cement 123K
Begin the abandonment of the corehole by filling the corehole with cement, 4/19/04		  

Photographs by Beth Wrege and Rob Weems, USGS

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