The Florida Geological Survey maintains a collection of paper documents associated with boreholes and hand specimens from throughout Florida. This collection includes all paper documents that can be considered archival documents or data sources, which are currently not in a collection of their own. In most cases, these documents hold information about boreholes and hand specimens within our sample collections; however, there remains a subset of the collection associated with boreholes outside of our sample collections that was deemed relevant at the time of acquisition for retention. These boreholes and their associated documents, were historically given a designation of a “wgi number.” During sample acquisition, boreholes are given a “W number” while hand specimens are assigned an “M Series number.” The documents in this collection include information about locations, elevations, drilling, sampling, and water quality. These documents currently reside in multiple file cabinets and book shelves.
