San Andreas Fault Zone Observatory At Depth
Project Acronym: SAFOD | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5025
SAFOD is motivated by the need to answer fundamental questions about the physical and chemical processes controlling faulting and earthquake generation within a major plate-bounding fault. SAFOD drilled and instrumented an inclined borehole across the San Andreas Fault Zone to a depth of 3.2 km, targeting a repeating microearthquake source.
Keywords: North America, USA, Parkfield, San Andreas Fault, Active Faulting, California, Directional Drilling, Downhole Monitoring, Earthquakes
Cores are stored at Texas A&M University, IODP, Gulf Coast Repository, College Station, USA.
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Project Description
- Title:
- San Andreas Fault Zone Observatory At Depth (SAFOD) (SAFOD)
- Proposed in:
- 2004
- Current State:
- Completed
- Proposal abstract:
- n.a.
- Geologic age:
- Cretaceous, Tertiary
- Number of drillsites (drillholes):
- 1(2)
- Drilled length:
- 6859.17 m (7 wellholes/hole attempts/hole deepenings/sidetracks total)
- Cored length:
- 53.46 m
- Core recovered, length:
- 46.76 m
- Core recovered length / Cored length:
- 87.5%
- Core recovered / Drilled length:
- 0.7%
- Expedition #
- 5025
- Location
- North America, U.S.A., California, San Andreas Fault Zone, near by Parkfield, U.S.A.
- Coordinates
- 36.0000, -121.0000
- Status
- Completed
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Project Timeline
Sampling Party 2
21 July 2009 - 31 December 2010
Sampling Party 1
28 June - 17 December 2008
Drilling 4
20 June - 15 September 2007
Full Proposal Approved 3
Drilling 3
20 July - 9 August 2005
Full Proposal Approved 2
Drilling 2
11 June - 9 August 2004
Approved Full Proposal 1
Drilling 1
12 June - 24 July 2002