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C. Scott Brockman and Michael P. Angle preparing the CME Auger Rig for the Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area drill core hole #4 in Wyandot County, Ohio. The CME Auger Rig was purchased in 1986 and was capable of obtaining continuous, oriented core samples of unconsolidated sediment for glacial studies. The image was taken in April 1986.
Location is the Ohio Geological Survey's core repository at 4140 Fisher Road, Columbus Ohio 43228. The core collection and drill rigs were stored at this warehouse, known to the staff as the Phillipi Road Warehouse, between 1984 and the dedication of the Horace R. Collins Laboratory at 3307 South Old State Road, Delaware, Ohio 43015 in 1999.
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CME is the acronym for Central Mine Equipment Company of St. Louis, Missouri.
For information about drill rigs, see: Horace R. Collins-10th State Geologist by Robert G. Van Horn (Ohio Geological Survey, Ohio Geology Newsletter, Summer 1988) page 2, column 2, paragraph 3:
...purchase the Survey's first core-drilling rig, a Mobile B-61 Pacemaker, in 1980. A drilling crew was assembled, and drilling began in May 1981. This program proved to be so successful that...two other drill rigs (were purchased) in 1986--a Longyear Hydro 44 which is capable of core drilling to a depth of almost 6,000 feet, and a CME auger rig which is capable of obtaining continuous, oriented core samples of unconsolidated sediment. In addition to the purchase of these other rigs, the Division's drilling program had gained sufficient appreciation from Ohio mineral industries that one company, France Stone Company, donated a fourth core-drilling rig to the Survey.
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
One man standing on the side of a drilling vehicle; second man is standing behind the vehicle. Vehicle is stationed in the warehouse at the Fisher Road repository in Columbus, Ohio.