USGS INL Project Office
Core Storage Library
In 1990, the US Geological Survey, in cooperation with the US Department of Energy, Idaho Operations Office, established the Lithologic Core Storage Library (CSL). The facility was established to consolidate, catalog, and permanently store nonradioactive drill cores and cuttings from investigations of the subsurface conducted at the USGS Project Office at the INL. A complete report outlining CSL activities is available in pdf format.
Procedure
Core samples are available to qualified researchers for examination, sampling, and testing. The INL and CSL are restricted-access areas and permission to visit must be obtained prior to arrival at the INL. Contact us to answer your questions and to arrange for an appointment to use the CSL facility.
Chemicals must be provided by the users and a Material Safety Data Sheet must be provied to CSL personnel for each chemical brought into the laboratory.
Equipment
Laboratory equipment includes soil drying ovens, two rock saws, a drill press with coring bits 1/2 to 1 inch in diameter, petrographic microscopes, a permeameter, Coulter® counter, balances, constant-temperature water baths, a mechanical sediment shaker and sieves, and an array of standard laboratory glassware and equipment.
