Surtsey Subsurface Observatory article, Scientific Drilling - Surtsey at 50 Years - College of Mines and Earth Sciences

October 20, 2019October 22, 2019 surtsey50years

Design of the subsurface observatory at Surtsey volcano, Iceland

Borehole components of the Surtsey subsurface observatory. (a) HWT (11.43 cm outer diameter) steel casing surrounds the aluminum casing to 9.54 m.b.s.; (b, c) components of the wellhead. (d) Conical NQ (69 mm OD) aluminum casing shoe, 25.4 cm (10 in.) in length. (e) Perforated NQ aluminum casing pipe, 3.66 m (12 ft) in length.

These are the members of the SUSTAIN team that contributed to this article.

Andreas Türke¹, Marie D. Jackson², Wolfgang Bach¹, Wolf-Achim Kahl¹, Brian Grzybowski³, Beau Marshall⁴, Magnús T. Gudmundsson⁵, and Steffen Leth Jørgensen⁶

¹Department of Geosciences and MARUM, University of Bremen, Bremen 28357, Germany
²Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84102, USA
³L3 Technologies Inc., Communications and Networked Systems, Salt Lake City, Utah 84116, USA
⁴DOSECC Exploration Services, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101, USA
⁵Nordvulk, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
⁶K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research, Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Correspondence: Steffen Leth Jørgensen (steffen.jorgensen@bio.uib.no)