The Gulf Coast Repository Core Collection

Phil Rumford (Supervisor of Curation, Gulf Coast Repository) provides a guided tour of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program’s Gulf Coast Repository facility at Texas A&M University, in College Station, TX. He explains how the facility stores more than 150,000 meters of rock and sediment cores from the Pacific Ocean and then demonstrates some of the equipment used to study the cores, both aboard ship and in the repository’s laboratory. Rumford also points out the drill cores from the San Andreas Observatory at Depth (SAFOD), the only continental cores stored at the facility, and highlights their value to researchers. Support for the current SAFOD management project is provided by the NSF’s EarthScope program (EAR-1348121). Prior funding for the SAFOD project was also provided by EarthScope (EAR-0323938), with additional support from the USGS, the ICDP, Stanford University, and NASA.

Video produced by McLean Media. Additional video and graphics by Integrated Ocean Drilling Program and the National Science Foundation. Title animation by NASA and the Visible Earth Team (http://visibleearth.nasa.gov).

Title music provided by Flying Hands Music

Music: “Savannah Sketch” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Additional Music: "Silver Shine" and “Deep Ocean - Instrumental” by Dan-O at DanoSongs.com

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