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S06.08.038Description
The interior of the Ohio Geological Survey's core repository at 4140 Fisher Road, Columbus Ohio 43228. The core collection was located 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. The Ohio Geological Survey's Longyear Hydro-44 drill core rig is in the foreground left side of the image. The image was made by Michael C. Hansen in 1987.
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The Ohio Geological Survey's core repository was located at 1500 Dublin Road, Columbus, Ohio 43215 until 1984. It moved to a building, known to the staff as the Phillipi Road Warehouse, at 4140 Fisher Road, Columbus Ohio 43228 between 1984 and the dedication of the Horace R. Collins Laboratory at 3307 South Old State Road, Delaware, Ohio 43015 in 1999. The Horace R. Collins Laboratory was dedicated on October 12, 1999 to provide citizens, industry personnel, and researchers with a climate controlled environment for the study of the Ohio Geological Sample Repository contents.
Information about the history of the Survey's facilities is available in Survey Opens New Core and Sample Repository by Merrianne Hackathorn (Ohio Geological Survey, Ohio Geology Newsletter, No. 4, 1999).
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Overview of drilling vehicle and wooden pallette stacks in warehouse. Core repository at Fisher Road in Columbus, Ohio.