2022-10-19
New rock repository for BedrettoLab
The BedrettoLab recently moved all its drill cores to a special repository site close to the city of Zurich. Here around 1,600 meters of inventoried cores from the BedrettoLab and the rock laboratory in Grimsel are stored in 662 boxes.
When drilling a borehole with a certain method, a core is extracted. Geologists and geophysicists analyse those to find out more about the stress and porosity conditions as well as about existing faults or fractures, etc. This information later helps them to characterise the surrounding rock. Also, scientists create numerical models of the rock using data drawn from core analyses.
The cores from the BedrettoLab form a geological footprint that not only support current operations but will also support future geological or geophysical research about the Rotondo massif.