Haloed be thy vein
See this piece of core? Imagine you have to describe it to someone. With most listeners, you’d probably get away…
Core Science #2 – sampling the cores
A CORE SAMPLE is a specific sample a scientist chooses to do experiments on because they are interested in its…
Core Science #1 – What is coring and what does it tell us?
What is coring exactly? What we call a ‘core’ is simply a long tube of sediment (or when it’s harder,…
A core’s life
Here on expedition 372, we have completed coring! Coring is only scheduled for one site and we cored to just…
Scales Are Not Just For Fish: Time and Space in Geology
Blog Series Installment #2: Space as Time When you make a layer cake, you lay the first slab of cake…
Biscuits and Gravy
Drilling can alter the core in a variety of ways. This morning, the core on the description tables is made…
Sampling Sampler
After the core comes on deck at the catwalk and whole-round samples are taken for fossils and chemistry, it comes…
Core Description Consensus
Coordinating scientific observations among 33 scientists and 24 lab technicians over 2 shifts is no easy task. But it’s very…
Let's Get This (Sampling) Party Started
CORES DESCRIBERS : 3 teams, 3 specialties, 1 goal EPISODE 1: IGNEOUS PET
IGNEOUS PETROLOGISTS Jim, Lyderic, Tomo, Chuan-Zou, Biswajit, Alessio They focus on lithology and mineral composition. They have to determine grain…