While inventorying the drill cuttings from Meteor Crater, we identified 31 boxes of drill core from the crater. Unfortunately, there was little or no documentation for these cores and we initially did not know the drill hole locations or any of the ancillary details. With the assistance of Dr. David Kring, we eventually determined the origin of all of the drill cores. We found that they were drilled on the southern rim and flank of Meteor Crater between January 26 and March 30 of 1966. These cores were collected to provide unshocked examples of Moenkopi, Kaibab, and Coconino materials and to serve as a baseline for investigating the effects of shock on target rock at Meteor Crater. These drill cores have now been inventoried, documented, characterized, and entered into the sample collection for further analysis by the planetary science community.
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Meteor Crater Sample Collection
- Overview
While inventorying the drill cuttings from Meteor Crater, we identified 31 boxes of drill core from the crater. Unfortunately, there was little or no documentation for these cores and we initially did not know the drill hole locations or any of the ancillary details. With the assistance of Dr. David Kring, we eventually determined the origin of all of the drill cores. We found that they were drilled on the southern rim and flank of Meteor Crater between January 26 and March 30 of 1966. These cores were collected to provide unshocked examples of Moenkopi, Kaibab, and Coconino materials and to serve as a baseline for investigating the effects of shock on target rock at Meteor Crater. These drill cores have now been inventoried, documented, characterized, and entered into the sample collection for further analysis by the planetary science community.
- Science
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Meteor Crater Sample Collection
Meteor Crater is a 180 m deep, 1.2 km diameter bowl-shaped impact crater in Northern Arizona, and has long been a terrestrial analog site for planetary exploration. During the 1960’s, Eugene Shoemaker trained NASA astronauts at the crater to prepare for the Apollo missions to the Moon. The Meteor Crater Sample Collection consists of geologic samples from the Meteor Crater ejecta blanket. USGS...