The Lava Beneath Our Feet: Rock Cores from Tom Cat Hill, East Highway 20/26/93 Improvement Project
Kohler R and DeRaps M. 2008. The Lava Beneath Our Feet: Rock Cores from Tom Cat Hill, East Highway 20/26/93 Improvement Project. The Geologic Society of America
In 2003, twenty-nine boreholes were drilled into the prospective route for Southeastern Idaho’s Highway 20/26/93. Rock cores were collected from these boreholes in order to determine ground stability prior to emplacement of a new section of highway. Ruen drilling extracted the basaltic cores along a two mile stretch reaching depths below the surface of up to six meters. Although the purpose of drilling these cores was to improve highway routes, geologists at Craters of the Moon National Monument have also taken advantage of this opportunity to learn more about the lava beneath their feet and incorporate this new information with their knowledge of the surface.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Kohler, Rachel; DeRaps, Meagan
- Date of Issue
- 2008
- Publisher
- The Geologic Society of America
- Units
- CRMO
- Keywords
- basalt, cores