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SAFOD Main Hole



The SAFOD Drill Rig. The San Andreas fault is 1.8 km east of the drill site.

See the Special Report on the Parkfield 2004 earthquake USGS | CISN

Earthquake Study Goes Nucleation
BY DAVID BROWN, AAPG Explorer Magazine, July 2005

At depth of 2 miles, drilling reaches active section of fault zone
BY MARK SHWARTZ, Stanford Report, August 3, 2005

 

EarthScope's San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) - funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and conducted in full partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) - broke ground on June 11, 2004 in Parkfield, California. Drilling will continue through early October.

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Information for the Science Team

  • Daily Data Packages
     Daily data packages and images from the current work in the SAFOD field lab at Parkfield 
  • Summarizing Project Reports
     Cuttings Report, Mud Samples Report, Core Boxes Report, Core Runs Report, Lithological Report, Lithological Profile, Core Logging Report, Borehole Advance, Borehole Measurements, Daily Drilling Reports

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