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USGS Yellowstone National Park Core Collection In 1967 and 1968 the USGS, in partnership with NASA and the National Park Service, extracted rock core from 13 locations in Yellowstone National Park. Depths of the holes ranged from 215 ft to 1,088 ft and the total drilled footage was 6,802 ft. The deepest hole was drilled in Norris Basin. Research on these cores provided critical understanding of complex geothermal systems that would inform the potential development of other systems, external to the park, as energy sources. These cores are extremely rare due to the many restrictions on sampling in the park. Years later, the cores were used to investigate the origin of some of Yellowstone supervolcano’s lavas using techniques that did not even exist when the cores... Categories: Collection, Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Collection, National Park Service, Yellowstone National Park, bulk crustal melting, caldera, All tags... completed, drilling, geochemistry, geothermal, hot springs, hydrothermal, hydrothermal alteration, ndc_collection, renewable energy, rhyolite, supervolcano, tectonics, uplift, Fewer tags