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Truck-mounted drill rig near Riniken. (credit: Nagra)<\/p><\/div>\n
A PhD project with doctoral student Lukas Gegg, supervised by Marius B\u00fcchi and Flavio Anselmetti, investigates the drill cores.<\/p>\n
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Institute members Marius B\u00fcchi, Lukas Gegg, and Flavio Anselmetti discuss strategies with Gaudenz Deplazes from Nagra and the Fretus driller. (credit: Yama Tomonaga)<\/p><\/div>\n
In addition, Yama Tomonaga is sampling pore waters from the sediments for dating and noble gas analysis.<\/p>\n
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Lukas Gegg and Yama Tomonaga during pore-water sampling in the field-laboratory. (credit: Nagra)<\/p><\/div>\n
As of Friday March 9th, the drillers reached 17 m depth. Target depth is the bedrock expected around 40 m.<\/p>\n
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For more information:<\/p>\n
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- Yama Tomonaga: https:\/\/tomonaga.ch\/yama\/2018\/03\/10\/quaternary-drilling-in-riniken\/<\/a><\/li>\n
- Nagra: http:\/\/www.nagra-blog.ch\/2018\/03\/09\/impressionen-der-quartaerbohrung-in-riniken\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Nagra: http:\/\/www.nagra-blog.ch\/2018\/03\/09\/impressionen-der-quartaerbohrung-in-riniken\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"