The Rutgers/NJGS Core Repository

The core Repository currently consists of 7,000 sq ft of storage in Building 4106 and 1740 sq ft of storage in Building 4108 on the Livingston Campus, a 2-mile easy drive from our main laboratory space on the Busch Campus. “The Cage” is a secured area within Building 4106 with 1,380 sq ft and racks for 4,120 core boxes (~ 33,000 ft of core) stored on stainless racks. This space currently holds cores from the Newark Basin Drilling Project, ODP Leg 174AX, ODP Leg 150X, and and Chesapeake Bay Impact Strucure cores. The ~17,000 ft of ACE cores are stored in Building 4108. This building offers 5,000 sq ft of expansion space for future core acquisitions. Short-term core storage for newer cores that are being actively studied is available in the Geological Sciences Lab Building on the Busch campus with stainless steel core racks holding 740 core boxes (approximately 6,000 ft of core). This area contains 182 ft2 lay out space (enough for 150 ft of core), complete sets of DSDP and IODP volumes, phone, Xerox, Internet-2 connection, and a complete sedimentology lab. We currently archive over 60,000 ft of cores from the Rift and Drift basins of the Atlantic margin that represent some of the best-documented continental scientific cores in the U.S. and serve as an ODP/IODP core repository for over 15,000 ft of Leg 174AX and 150X cores and the ICDP Cape Charles CBIS cores.

Geological Sciences Lab Building

Layout and Description Room

182 ft2 table and desk space to lay out 12-15 core boxes complete set DSDP/ODP vol. microscopes Phone Internet-2 connection adjacent to complete sedimentology lab.

Short-term Core Storage

Used for newer cores that are being actively studied. Geological Sciences Lab Building on the Busch campus.   Short-term core storage room: 198 ft2, with stainless steel core racks holding 740 core boxes (approximately 6000 ft of core). Currently holdings: Cape May Zoo Eyreville, Virigina Post-impact Cores St. Stephen's Quarry, Alabama Holocene barrier island cores

Long-Term Core Storage on Livingston campus

“The Cage”: 1,380 ft², with racks for 4,120 core boxes (~ 33,000 ft of core) stored on $36,000 of stainless racks

Space for 720 core boxes is still available (~6,000 ft new core; Leg 150X, Chesapeake)

Current holdings:
Coastal Plain: Fort Mott, Millville, Sea Girt
ODP Leg 150x:
Island Beach, Atlantic City, Cape May

Newark Basin Coring Project (NBCP) Cores (21,877 ft)

Building 4108 room: 1740 ft2 Current holding: Passaic Mountain Tunnel core Army Core of Engineers (ACE): Jurassic Section ~17,000 ft core

N.J.G.S. core room: 525 ft², older New Jersey cores drilled by the NJGS and the USGS

• Current holdings:
• Freehold (85 boxes, 1320 ft)
• Allaire (13 boxes, 311 ft)
• ACGS#4 (54 boxes, 945 ft)
• Belleplain (35 boxes, 335 ft)
• Cape May Airport (28 boxes, 300 ft)
• Clayton (71 boxes, 997 ft)
• total 286 boxes, 4,208 ft

In addition there are split spoons and short cores taken by the NJGS from the coastal plain