Tools to measure a core sample's electrical anisotropy have been sadly lacking, according to a group of researchers. To solve this problem, they found inspiration in a type of logging technology ...

Several boxes of rock core are pictured Monday, December 23, 2024. The Kansas Geological Survey’s library of drill cores, which currently includes over 73,000 boxes of rocks, is expanding to enhance ...

BOSTON & HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Iron Mountain® Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information management company, today introduced a new storage and information management offering for drill ...

Researchers have drilled the deepest Antarctic sediment core ever, uncovering 23 million years of climate history beneath the ice sheet.

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions interns recently performed an inventory of the Geological Core Repository, a warehouse of sediment and rock cores from across the Savannah River Site. The SRS ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville's Metropolitan Sewer District provided a glimpse Thursday of what life was like hundreds of millions of years ago. The Kentucky Geological Survey accepted 2 tons ...

For 60 years, scientists have tried to get rock samples of the Earth’s mantle. But the geologic layer below the planet’s crust is incredibly difficult to reach. Scientists believe they’ve successfully ...

Scientists found a partial dinosaur vertebra inside a geological core sample that measures just 2.5 inches in diameter. Rick Wicker / Denver Museum of Nature and Science For decades, visitors have ...

Drill core samples give geologists a detailed record of what’s happening beneath the surface. They help determine where mineral deposits may exist and whether those resources could be developed. With ...

Deep within the bowels of the University of Minnesota, a plastic tube filled with mud from an Indonesian lake bed inches its way through a machine. By the time the sediment completes its pass through ...