The Outokumpu Deep Drilling Project
Description
GTK with its research teams is responsible of the basic geological and petrophysical investigations of the core, geophysical logging results, fluid sampling and hydraulic testing. Further, we are involved in themes such as modelling the magnetic and gravity fields, and petrological investigations of the cores. The basic operations of the project included drilling the hole to 2.5 km depth with continuous coring, geophysical loggings using 20 different methods, as well as hydrogeological sampling and hydraulic permeability measurements.
The Outokumpu Deep Geolaboratory: Once the basic drilling, logging and sampling operations are over, the borehole will be left open and our aim to provide the borehole for national and international use as a deep laboratory facility for different short and long-period experiments to be carried out in the borehole. The site has been leased from the local municipality by GTK on a long-term basis, and follow-up projects, additional fluid sampling and monitoring projects can be planned to extend for several years after 2005. Basic facilities (warm hut, electricity, etc.) required by monitoring computers and other devices will be provided by GTK on the site.
(Figure ©:Geological Survey of Finland)
See also:
Location
Europe, Finland, Eastern Finland, Svecofennian orogeny, Outokumpu
Coordinates
62° 43' 04'' N, 29° 3' 43'' E (Please scroll down to end of page for more information.)
Project Start and End
- Begin of drilling April 2004
- End of drilling early 2005
Programs and Funding
Principal Investigators
- Ilmo Tapio Kukkonen, University of Helsinki, Institute of Seismology
Partners and Contractors
- Geological Survey of Finland, Section of Geophysics, South Finland Unit
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Computing Center
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Scientific Drilling, (Operational Support Group OSG/ICDP)
- Machinoexport
- NEDRA Drilling Enterprise, Ministry of Geology
- RWTH Aachen University, Applied Geophysics and Geothermal Energy
Keywords
Finland, ICDP-2005/07, Ophiolites, OUTOKUMPU, Precambrian, Saline Fluids, Thermal Regimes
Current State
Drilling operations and downhole logging have been finalized, scientific evaluations are ongoing
Homepages
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ECORD/ICDP MagellanPlus Call for Proposals Lake Ohrid Drilling Recovered Continuous Record Lake El’gygytgyn Second Overview Paper Scientific Drilling Issue 15 Online 2013 International Van Earthquake Symposium NSF Workshop: Drilling Active Tectonics and Magmatism New SAG Composition for 2013 The Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project Scientific Drilling Issue 14 Online Imaging the Past to Imagine our Future | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lake Ohrid:
In ca 87 m depth at the Cerava hole 2B, we found a conglomerate of gravel, sand and lots of snail and... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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NSF Workshop on Scientific Drilling and the Evolution of the Earth System NSF Workshop: Drilling Active Tectonics and Magmatism NSF Workshop: Drilling into High-Enthalpy Geothermal Systems | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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