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Click here to go to the 1999 Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project Home Page!

Home page for Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project (1993/94)

HSDP has drilled a 1056 m hole in Hilo, Hawaii, retrieving rocks from the Hawaiian volcanoes Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea. You can now access from this page a complete lithologic core log and photographs of each box of core and of thin-sections of most units. This information can be used by investigators to find areas of interest for possible sampling. We also add pointers to data at remote sites as it is contributed by project investigators. Changes to this server are noted on the What's New page. As people ask questions about using the server, answers will be posted on the FAQ page.
You can start by reading this Press Release from November, 1993. Or for a more recent view, here are the Figures from Ed Stolper's 1994 Spring AGU talk (sorry, no text), including a list of project investigators and information on dating parts of the core.

Here is the index to sensitive maps of the Lithologic Column, where clicking on the box numbers brings up a photograph of that box of core and clicking on a lithologic unit brings up a complete description of that unit, including links to thin-section photos when available. Raw core-box photos have been removed; if the annotated version showing lithologic units, xenoliths, sampled areas, etc. conceals a feature you need to see, contact asimow@gps.caltech.edu.

If you know what photo, description, or column page you want already, including photos of thin-sections, you can bypass the sensitive map and download from this directory. You can also get the complete Lithologic Column as a single 1128x8091 GIF here; it is only 290 kb, but it is too tall for Netscape to inline, so if are using Netscape, get this uuencoded version instead.

Contributed Data

There is much more information, including geophysical logs of the drill hole at the Continental Scientific Drilling homepage at Texas A&M.
This is a link to an ftp area, sometimes used for HSDP file exchange.

Or, go straight to an example core photograph (warning! 330 kb image).

Just for kicks, here is a picture of Ed Stolper's Dog and a picture of two of HDSP's PIs, Ed Stolper and Don DePaolo.

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