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

• Published in: Scientific Drilling
• Main Authors: Guðmundur Ómar Friðleifsson, Sverrir Þórhallsson, Paul Bowers, Alexander C. Skinner, Hermann Guðmundsson
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2010
• Subjects: IDDP; Geology; QE1-996.5; Reykjanes; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2204/iodp.sd.10.05.2010; https://doaj.org/article/a5730eed527243709c6e765922379b0d

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 ¼" (184.15 mm) OD at 10 m length an...