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The bright white minerals in the same sections are calcite, a sign that water as been present and plays a role in the fault as well. These and other important sections of the core will be marked with bubbles containing scientific information as more work is done, Hickman told Discovery News. "The core viewer is to show the scientific community what the core looks like," said Stanford University's Charley Weiland, who serves as SAFOD's data manager. Already there are 800 samples requested from researchers who want to conduct all sorts of research on the rocks. "The core is a very scarce commodity," Weiland told Discovery News. The actual core is locked away at 4 degrees Centigrade with ocean drilling cores in a store facility in Texas, he said. SAFOD is one of three "observatories" encompassed by the EarthScope project. The other two are the Plate Boundary Observatory, which measures the ongoing tectonic mangling of the crust throughout the Western United States, and the U.S. Array, which is moving a high-density network of seismic stations across North America to uncover the physical structure of the continent. Related Links: Discovery News Blog: Earth Impacts |
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