Design, Manufacture, and Operation of a Core Barrel for the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP)

• Published in: Scientific Drilling
• Main Authors: Skinner, A. C., Bowers, P., Þórhallsson, S., Ómar Friðleifsson, G., Guðmundsson, H.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Reykjanes; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2204/iodp.sd.10.05.2010; https://sd.copernicus.org/articles/10/40/2010/

The science program of the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) requires as much core as possible in the transition zone to supercritical and inside the supercritical zone (>374°C), in the depth interval 2400–4500 m. The spot coring system selected has a 7 1/4" (184.15 mm) OD at 10 m length...