Sonic Drill Corp. Helps Students Reveal Glacial Secrets at the University of Calgary

摘要

Motivated by a desire to teach and learn, Dan Kelleher and Ken Borrell of the Midwest GeoSciences Group drove 20 hours from their home city of Waverly, Minnesota, to the University of Calgary to experience their first sonic borehole in Canada. Midwest Geo was offering one of its workshops on glacial successions in late November 2010 for more than 50 geologists from Canada and the United States. The course teaches the principles of sedimentary depositions, the effects of sedimentary weathering, and the methods to describe those elements on boring logs.