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The North Carolina Geological Survey (NCGS) was awarded a succession of STATEMAP Grants to map Coastal Plain deposits in the vicinity of the Surry Paleoshoreline complex. This area includes Fountain, Falkland, Farmville and Walstonburg quadrangles, and portions of Pitt, Greene, Wilson and Edgecombe counties. The Surry paleoshoreline is along-strike from Trail Ridge. NCGS maps from the known to the unknown; hence the area for detailed mapping was chosen because a significant amount of high-quality subsurface data already existed in the same area because of the EPA 319h Grants awarded to NCGS. NCGS has a small drill rig called a Geoprobe, that it uses to collect continuous core samples through Pliocene and Pleistocene...
Historically, the Legacy Core and Cuttings Collection (LCCC) is the principal compilation of NCGS’s borehole records. This is an electronic compilation of pre-1988, onshore holdings that documents core, cuttings and well logs for 875 borehole records. Hoffman and Nickerson (1988) provide an explanation of how this data was compiled and organized into an early database that was eventually migrated by J.G. Nickerson to an ARCGIS geodatabase. The database’s 875 borehole records are categorized as: 1) WELLDATA, 2) OILTEST, 3) TRIASSIC, and HARDROCK. WELLDATA includes borehole records for domestic, municipal, and industrial water wells; mineral exploration core holes and stratigraphic tests. OILTEST includes records...
An FY17 NGGDPP grant funded a demolition project to rescue of 1952+ core boxes from a collapsed building, the Cary Annex. The OTHER Undocumented Core Collections (OUCC) defined herein helps compile the interim results of an inventory of 781 of the 1952+ rescued boxes, funded by an FY21 NGGDPP grant. As a result of the inventory, 277 core boxes were identified that are associated with 63 new, previously undocumented boreholes. All of the boxes were damaged and likely need reboxing; 85 were reboxed by NCGS staff. Some of the core boxes have partial losses of core lengths; some material is weathered in situ (in the box). These collections include HARD ROCK and TRIASSIC geologic core samples. Coordinate data is not...
For a hydrogeologic site characterization project at the Cherry Point Marine Corp Air Station (MCAS) nine coreholes were drilled by the USGS (Raleigh Water Resources Division in Raleigh) over the period 1994-2005. Five of these continuous cores were donated to the NCGS for permanent storage in its Coastal Plain Office and Core Repository (CPO). The collection currently includes 1244 ft of core, from five boreholes. The location of the other four cores is unknown. Maximum penetration depth was 305 ft. Eocene through Quaternary deposits were intercepted. A report on the cores by Beth M. Wrege and Philip S. Jen, Data from Stratigraphic Test Holes Drilled at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, North...
During the period 1991 to 1997, NCGS staff Geologists John G. Nickerson and Norman K. Gay (Kenny.Gay@ncdenr.gov) mapped the Coastal Plain portion of the Raleigh 100K sheet. For the subsurface analysis associated with this mapping, 392 boreholes were drilled in an area that included the following quadrangles: Angier, Bailey, Clayton, Edmondson, Flowers, Fuquay Varina, Garner, Knightdale, Kenly East, Kenly West, Lucama, Lake Wheeler, Middlesex, Powhatan, Stancils Chapel, Selma, Spring Hope, and Zebulon. Many of the boreholes were drilled by Patterson Exploration Services, Inc., of Sanford, NC. Total footage drilled was 10,089 ft using a variety of drilling methods (e.g. split-spoon sampling, machine and hand augering);...
The North Carolina Geological Survey’s Coastal Plain Office and Core Repository (CPO) serves as the permanent archive for geologic and geophysical data from the NC Low-Level Radioactive Waste Project. Currently, the collection for the potentially suitable Wake/Chatham site includes 18,184.6 ft of core collected from 159 boreholes with a maximum penetration depth of 560 ft. Borehole records for these drill sites exist as paper data in flat files at the CPO. Photographs of the core are available as prints. Additional information on the geology or geophysics of the site remain in unsorted archives stored in ~300 boxes. Electronic archives were not provided when the project was abandoned in 1995. Additional information...
Collection includes 1952 boxes of rock core that were rescued from a collapsed building, the Cary Annex, with funding from an FY17 NGGDPP grant. This is approximately 24,456 ft of core, ignoring core loss in damaged boxes. An inventory on the rescued material is incomplete. Cores included in this collection were identified from photographs of shelving, matching of core identifiers on boxes to spreadsheet line items, and hard copy metadata files; it is not comprehensive for the complete collection. Condition of cores and extent of loss is unknown until an inventory is completed. The rescued cores are currently stored on pallets that are housed in the NCGS?s main repository or in onsite shipping containers. The collection...
An FY17 NGGDPP grant funded a demolition project to rescue of 1952+ core boxes from a collapsed building, the Cary Annex. This update on the status of the Legacy Core and Cuttings Collection (LCCC) helps compile the interim results of an inventory of 781 of the 1952+ rescued boxes, partly funded by an FY21 NGGDPP grant. As a result of the inventory, 504 core boxes were identified that are associated with 42 original borehole records in the LCCC. For the same borehole records, 367 core boxes remain palletized in conexes, or were damaged or lost. All of the core boxes were damaged and likely need reboxing; 120 were reboxed by NCGS staff. Some of the core boxes have partial losses of core lengths; some material is...
From 1999 to 2006, North Carolina Geological Survey (NCGS), Senior Geologist Kathleen M. Farrell worked closely with Dr. Harold E. (Ted) Mew, III, Senior Hydrogeologist of the North Carolina Division of Water Quality (DWQ, currently absorbed by Division of Water Resources) to characterize shallow aquifers and confining units on the Coastal Plain of eastern North Carolina. The projects were funded by the Environmental Protection Agency?s 319H Non-Point Source Grant Program, administered through the NC DWQ?s Non-Point Source Program. The funding to NCGS was divided into three parts: 1) 1999-2001 ? $25,000 for NCGS to geologically characterize the Lizzie Research Station for the purpose of developing a 3D ground water...
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