Deep Drilling in Crystalline Bedrock: Volume 2: Review of Deep Drilling Projects, Technology, Sciences and Prospects for the Future

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Welcoming at the 3rd International Symposium on Observation of the Continental Crust Through Drilling, Mora and Orsa, Sweden, September 7–10, 1987....Pages 3-4
Opening Speech of the 3rd International Symposium on Observation of the Continental Crust Through Drilling, Mora and Orsa, Sweden, September 7–10, 1987....Pages 5-5
Drilling for Deep Gas in the Siljan Impact Structure....Pages 6-6
Opening Ceremony Remarks....Pages 7-8
Continental Scientific Drilling — A Scientific Frontier....Pages 9-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Experience from Crystalline Rock Drilling and Technology Directions for Effective Ultra-Deep Coring and Drilling....Pages 13-53
Deep Structure of Early Precambrian Continental Crust (Kola Super-Deep Well....Pages 54-63
The German Continental Deep Drilling Program, Targets and State of Work....Pages 64-81
The Ocean Drilling Program....Pages 82-91
DOSECC’s Deep Scientific Drilling Project at Cajon Pass, California....Pages 92-101
Problems of Ultra Deep Exploration in the Alpine Region of Central Europe....Pages 102-106
The “Deep Geology of France” Programme. The First Three Boreholes in Crystalline Rocks....Pages 107-116
The Appalachian Ultradeep Core Hole (ADCOH) Project....Pages 117-154
Deep Crustal Drilling, Texas Gulf Coast, United States of America....Pages 155-171
Results from Shallow Research Drilling at Inyo Domes, Long Valley Caldera, California and the Salton Sea Geothermal Field, Salton Trough, California....Pages 172-188
Scientific Drilling in Canada — Past and Future....Pages 189-194
The contribution of drilling to British deep geology....Pages 195-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Cajon Pass Scientific Drilling Project: Phase I Overview....Pages 205-223
The Drilling Concept of the Continental Deep Drilling Program of the Federal Republic of Germany (KTB)....Pages 224-234
Bit Design for Crystalline Rock....Pages 235-261
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Coring Tools for Application in Crystalline Rock....Pages 262-285
Modern exploration by deep slim hole drilling and wire line coring....Pages 286-294
Deep Hole Drilling with Wireline Equipment....Pages 295-300
Future Development of Ultraslim Hole Drilling Technique and its Place in Deeper Exploration Drilling....Pages 301-305
A New High Temperature Stable Drilling Mud Additive for Geological and Deep Drilling Operations....Pages 306-314
Formation Microscanner Tool Imaging and Laterolog Resistivity Measurements in Interpretation of Crystalline Terrains....Pages 315-327
Comparison of Rotating Times for Deep Wells....Pages 328-332
Significance of Material Softening for the Analysis of Deep Borehole Stability....Pages 333-348
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
Project Upper Crust: A Program to Sample the Precambrian Basement of the Midcontinent Region of North America Using Industrial Drill Holes....Pages 351-360
Scientific Exploration of an Active Magma-Hydrothermal System in the Valles Caldera, New Mexico Through Drilling....Pages 361-380
Initial Results of the Salton Sea Scientific Drilling Project (SSSDP): A Research Borehole in an Active Hydrothermal System in Southern California, U.S.A.....Pages 381-390
The Swedish Hot-Dry-Rock Project; Some Preliminary Achievements....Pages 391-400
Geophysical Aspects of Recent Deep Seismic Soundings of the German Crust....Pages 401-416
A Pilot Vertical Seismic Profiling Experiment in the Cajon Pass Deep Scientific Drillhole....Pages 417-427
The Logging Strategy for the Contintental Deep Drilling Programme of the Federal Republic of Germany....Pages 428-443
Frictional Sliding and the Crustal Stresses....Pages 444-453
General Considerations of the Flow of Gases Through the Crust....Pages 454-457
New Concepts of Earth Structure and Potential Hydrocarbon Reserves....Pages 458-476
Permeability and Paleoporosity in Crystalline Bedrocks of the Central European Basement — Studies of Cathodoluminescence....Pages 477-497
Front Matter....Pages 499-499
Frontiers in Hydrocarbon Exploration....Pages 501-511
Front Matter....Pages 499-499
Why Drill Deep Holes in Precambrian Basement?....Pages 512-522
The Future of Scientific Drilling....Pages 523-531
Quantifying the Mass-Energy Fluxes Across The Geospheres: The New Challenge for the Earth Sciences....Pages 532-538