The Earth Institute at Columbia University posted an informal report on the results of the Colorado Plateau Coring Project's 1706 foot deep corehole and a second, 830 foot deep hole continuously cored last fall in Petrified Forest National Park. The story includes a slide show of the geology and the round-the-clock drilling operation. The goal is to examine late Triassic environments.
That's a big deal, I think it's respectable when people pass up a drill to save the environment. Don't get me wrong however, I'm not obsessed with nature over man. I do though always want to have a place to go and visit that's beautiful.
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I agree with you Feruccio, I really think that it's great that they didn't drill here. There are a lot of other places in the world that contain oil and other natural resources. There are however very few places in the world that have a petrified forest like this one.
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