Manitoba pluton drill core slice

Artifact Number:

2018-074

Description

A 24.5 cm diameter by 1 cm thick slice of a drill core from the pluton near the Whiteshell laboratories where the Underground Research Laboratory (URL) was sited.

Details

Keywords:
subsurface structure; underground storage; waste storage
Date:
late 1980s
Associated artifacts:
See artifact 2018-134
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