RAPID: Archiving of Drill Core from the Humuula Saddle Region, Hawaii Island

该RAPID奖项将支持在美国陆军资助的钻探项目中收集和储存岩芯，该项目计划于2月至3月开始。两个2公里深的钻孔将钻到陆军的Pohakuloa训练区-位于夏威夷大岛中心附近，位于莫纳克亚火山和莫纳罗亚火山之间的Humu'ula Saddle地区。预计将进行一年的连续岩石取芯。地核本身有望对与地幔熔融有关的悬而未决的科学问题以及夏威夷火山的内部结构和演化提供重要的见解。美国陆军的兴趣是为该地区寻找饮用水源，他们愿意允许地质学家小组进入岩石核心。 该RAPID将支持所需的基础设施，以适当地清洁、标记、描述和存储将在钻探过程中提取的岩芯，为更大的地质社区提供这些独特的样本，这些样本将被负责任地存档，用于未来的科学分析。分析夏威夷火山2公里连续地层的机会肯定是罕见的，然而，它提供了一种基本的方法来收集有关从地幔到地表发生的过程的信息。这个岩心的位置与夏威夷以前的任何钻探地点都不同，这将使更完整的区域取样能够解决与莫纳克亚火山内部结构具体有关的问题。RAPID的基本原理是确保核心正确存档，以便不会失去获得这些样本的独特机会。

This RAPID award will support the collection and storage of a rock core to be extracted during a U.S. Army-funded drilling project that is scheduled to start in February-March. Two, 2 km deep boreholes, will be drilled into the Army's Pohakuloa Training Area - located near the center of the Big Island of Hawaii in the Humu'ula Saddle region between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa volcanoes. One year of continuous rock coring is anticipated. The core itself promises to hold important insight into outstanding scientific problems related to mantle melting, and the internal structure and evolution of Hawaiian volcanoes. The U.S Army's interest is in finding a potable water source for the region and they are willing to allow the team of geologists access to the rock core. This RAPID will support the infrastructure needed to properly clean, label, describe, and store the rock core that will be extracted in the drilling process, providing the greater geological community access to these unique samples that will be responsibly archived for future scientific analyses.The opportunity to analyze 2 km of continuous stratigraphy of a Hawaiian volcano is certainly rare, yet presents a fundamental way by which to gather information about processes that occur from the Earth's mantle to the surface. The location of this core is distinct from any previous drill site in Hawaii, which will enable a more complete regional sampling to address questions specifically related to the internal structure of Mauna Kea volcano. The rationale for the RAPID is to ensure that the core is properly archived so that this unique opportunity to obtain these samples is not lost.