Faculty Advisor
Ed Weber
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2025
Keywords
Internship
Abstract
My internship this summer was with Western's Geology Department, as a field assistant for a graduate student, George Meyer. George does work in Paleomagnetism, studying the magnetic fields of rocks. For this project, he was looking at Cretaceous granitoids in the Pioneer Mountain Range in Southwestern Montana. The sampling we did was with a coring drill that was made of a modified chainsaw. The chainsaw had the bar and chain removed and out from the engine a chuck was added that holds a 1-inch diameter diamond-tipped coring bit. A valve was also added on the chuck to pump water through the bit while drilling to cool both the rock and the bit, as well as reduce friction.
Recommended Citation
Gundlach, Garrett, "WWU Paleomagnetism Field Asst Intern" (2025). College of the Environment Internship Reports. 299.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/cenv_internship/299
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Text
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Language
English
Format
application/pdf