Downhole logging of the AND-2A borehole, Victoria Land Basin, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica ...

• Main Authors: Wonik, Thomas, Grelle, Thomas, Handwerger, David A, Jarrard, Richard D, McKee, Andrew, Patterson, Taylor, Paulsen, Timothy S, Pierdominici, Simona, Schmitt, Douglas R, Schröder, Henning, Speece, Marvin, Wilson, Terry, SMS Science Team
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2009
• Subjects: DEPTH, sediment/rock; Density, wet bulk; Porosity; Magnetic susceptibility, volume; HNGS Standard total Gamma Ray; Potassium; Thorium; Uranium; Drilling/drill rig; Analog impulse tool D48; Antares digital loggin tool; SMS; McMurdo Station; Antarctic Geological Drilling ANDRILL; Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas SPP1158; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Magnetic susceptibility; McMurdo Sound; Sea ice; Victoria Land
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.761920; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.761920

Under the framework of the ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound (SMS) Project successful downhole experiments were conducted in the 1138.54 metre (m)-deep AND-2A borehole. Wireline logs successfully recorded were: magnetic susceptibility, spectral gamma ray, sonic velocity, borehole televiewer, neutron porosity, density, calliper, geochemistry, temperature and dipmeter. A resistivity tool and its backup both failed to operate, thus resistivity data were not collected. Due to hole conditions, logs were collected in several passes from the total depth at ~1138 metres below sea floor (mbsf) to ~230 mbsf, except for some intervals that were either inaccessible due to bridging or were shielded by the drill string. Furthermore, a Vertical Seismic Profile (VSP) was created from ~1000 mbsf up to the sea floor. The first hydraulic fracturing stress measurements in Antarctica were conducted in the interval 1000-1138 mbsf. This extensive data set will allow the SMS Science Team to reach some of the ambitious objectives of ... : Physical parameters measured in the AND-2A borehole drilled by the ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Project (SMS) from October to December 2007. The respective parameters are wet bulk density, porosity, magnetic susceptibility, spectral gamma radiation and the content of potassium, thorium and uranium. The data set covers the depth interval from 400 mbsf (meters below seafloor) to 983 mbsf. ...