Borehole Geophysical Logs Acquired by the Indiana Geological Survey
Introduction
The Indiana Geological Survey (IGS) has had its own geophysical logging equipment and borehole logging program since 1953. The geophysical log database, logs, and equipment are currently managed by the Environmental Geology Section. Initially, the IGS used resistivity and spontaneous potential (SP) tools to log bedrock units in drill holes located throughout the state. In 1976, the IGS acquired a logging unit that could record natural gamma-ray radioactivity as well as resistivity and SP. In all, more than 4,000 logs have been collected from predominantly shallow boreholes (fig. 1). The log data provide a basis for IGS bedrock and glacial-terrain studies, including regional-scale mapping, 1:100,000-scale quadrangle mapping, and concentrated countywide environmental and seismic-risk analysis.
Since the mid-1970s, the IGS has worked with water-well drilling contractors, environmental consultants, and government agencies to acquire gamma-ray logs and collect samples of unconsolidated Pleistocene and recent materials from water, monitoring, and test wells immediately after they were drilled. A large number of the IGS-acquired geophysical logs available for download at this Web site were run using the "slow-logging" technique (Bleuer, 2004). In logging these unconsolidated sediments, the logging speeds are slow (5 ft/min) and the time constants are high (5 secs) (Bleuer, 2004). Analog output is plotted at a depth scale of 10 ft/in and a rate scale of 100 counts/sec (100 counts equals 75 API units) on a 5-inch-wide plot (fig. 2). See Bleuer (2004) for additional information about the history of the downhole logging and sampling of unconsolidated Pleistocene and recent materials by the IGS.
 Figure 1. Map of Indiana showing distribution of IGS gamma-ray logs. |
 Figure 2. "Slow-logging" gamma-ray log plot from a drill hole in Allen County. |
The IGS is also a repository for other borehole geophysical logs, which have been run primarily in petroleum exploration wells by commercial geophysical logging companies. The majority of the commercial logs on file are from boreholes located in Indiana; however, there are selected logs from drill holes in adjacent states. Copies of these logs are available from the IGS Subsurface Geology Section.
Geophysical Log Data Downloads
In 2007, the IGS gamma-ray logs for boreholes in Allen County were formatted and are available in Portable Document Format (PDF) and Log ASCII Standard (LAS) file formats at the Allen County Web site: <http://129.79.145.5/arcIMS/allen/static/index.html>. The IGS continues to format its gamma-ray logs in PDF and LAS format and gamma-ray logs are available for boreholes located in the counties listed below. As IGS gamma-ray logs in additional counties are formatted, they will be made available for downloading at this site. After all IGS gamma-ray logs are formatted and made available, the IGS resistivity and SP logs will be formatted and added to the site.
Programs available to assist in viewing the scanned logs are AutoCad, RockWorks, and Neuralog. BlueView software is offered for download from Schlumberger at <http://www.slb.com/content/services/evaluation/software/blueview.asp>.
County |
LAS Format |
PDF Format |
| Allen | ||
| Blackford | ||
| Delaware | ||
| Grant* | ||
| Henry | ||
| Huntington | ||
| Jay | ||
| Lagrange | ||
| Lake | ||
| Laporte | ||
| Marion* | ||
| Miami | ||
| Porter | Randolph | |
| Rush | ||
| Steuben | ||
| Wabash | ||
| Wayne | ||
| Wells | ||
| Whitley |
References:
Bleuer, N. K., 2004, Slow-logging subtle sequences–the gamma-ray log character of glacigenic and other unconsolidated sedimentary sequences: Indiana Geological Survey Special Report 65, 39 p.
For additional information contact:
Marni D. Karaffa
Indiana Geological Survey
Indiana University
611 North Walnut Grove Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405-2208
mldickso@indiana.edu
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