Thank you to everyone who used to OGSR Library in this past year. It has been our pleasure to help with your research and study of the subsurface bedrock in Ontario, and thank you to all the operators who support the Library with data and fees. None of the work or support for industry would be available without the continued supply of new information and innovations that lead to new exploration of old rock cores.

In this past year we have updated many data connections and are preparing for a major update of the website. Thousands of additional rock chip and rock core photos are available to speed up your desktop exploration. We've captured new and geologically significant locations in virtual reality and kicked-off efforts to begin digitizing cores and rocks in extremely high detail to assist all of our explorers accessing data from outside the London, Ontario, area.

Have a safe and happy holiday and a merry Christmas! We'll be thinking of new projects as we rock around the Christmas tree and are looking forward to serving you again in the new year.

Hi everyone, summer student Elisa checking in from the past to report on what I worked on for the 3 months I was at the OGSR Library. Regarding public data, I added a few thousand photos into our chip photo and core photo catalogues. These are images of various intervals of drilled wells that can be easily accessed through the PxTools layer on Google Earth. High resolution images can be obtained by request. A few particularly interesting images made it onto our social media @ogsrlibrary. I also produced a couple of cross-sections from scratch using Inkscape (similar to Illustrator) of the Cambrian in southern Ontario. Updated images and my formation descriptions summaries may be available to the public in the future. Some miscellaneous improvements were made internally to streamline future projects and client work.

I’ve quite enjoyed working at the Library over the summer. There were plenty of fun geology projects in between photography for documentation, field trips for research, and the colleagues were most excellent. I had the opportunity to moderate the first hybrid EPEX conference last minute and think I did a rather smashing job of it. I am glad I missed out on what seems to be a near annual hot sauce competition and enjoyed a rather tame version of semi-regular BBQs instead. It’s been… gneiss :3
 

Figure 1. Looking v cool getting a multi-million year old mud mask while aligning core and cutting. (Photo taken by Dan/client)

During my employment at OGSRL I have worked on several projects including, Cambrian project and Project hydro model. For the Cambrian project I wrote a report of a picking criteria for formations that are in the lower Ordovician and the Cambrian ages. To complete the picking criteria report I core logged wells and studied drilling chip samples to identify the characteristics of the formations, where geophysical logs also are used for these studies. Moreover, based on the results of the report, two cross sections were drowned to show how formations would connect stratigraphically and geographically. In addition, I worked partially on Project hydro model where I picked the following formations Dundee, Lucas, Amherstburg, Onondaga, and Bois Blank in more that 300 wells. Along with picking the Salina group using geophysical logs.

Furthermore, I have performed core photography and drilling chip samples at OGSRL. All vials were taken in three zooms 10X, 30X and another 10X to show the diversity of minerals in a vial (Fig 1). Cores were photographed in three mods Wet, Dry and UVF (Fig 2).

In addition, I have participated in geology trips that were planned by OGSRL. First location to visit was Mystery falls to understand the geology of the region to observe rock samples and fossils. Second location was visiting Fairbank Oil Fields and the Oil Museum of Canada to understand and build knowledge about the history of oil production in Ontario. Third location was visiting a rig to understand Oil and Gas drilling operations. 
 

Figure 1: An example of photographed chip sample vials

    Figure 2: An example photographed core in three modes UVF, DRY, and WET