![]() (1) The night shift suffered through driving cold rain. Then at about 2:00 AM, the inner barrel (core tube) got stuck at the bottom of the hole. |
![]() (2) This required the day-shift to trip. By afternoon coring had resumed. |
![]() (3) At around 1529.4 ft gypsum filled, bedding-parallel fractures were seen in the core. | ![]() (4) Then intervals of nodular gypsum were recoved indicating that we are definately in the Moqui Member. |
![]() (5) Gypsum is aboundant in the Moqui Member of the Moenkopi indicating the presence of sakline brines, which is about as close to a marine environment as we are going to get here. |