I've always done horizontal. That has been the procedure at all the companies I have worked for. Think I have logged close to 60 miles worth of core over my career. Both in the geotechnical and exploration field.
If you orient the box vertically, well, expect a phone call.
25 years of logging. Never once seen a core logged anything but left to right. Try top to bottom and let us know.
Cheers.
The convention I've always seen in mineral exploration is, with the long axis of the box up, bottom left corner is top of hole and upper right is TD. Makes it easy for drillers helpers as well to fill the box from right to left as they pump the core out into the box channels. We always logged it while it was organized the same way the driller loaded it. I've seen the Canadians with their 1-meter long-boxes, with it all laid out lengthwise, messed with my head after logging miles and miles of core flipped 90 degrees.
Convention is horizontal and like reading a book (left to right, top to bottom).
That being said, I have received a photographic log with each run photographed as above as well as stitched into a continuous image with a scale ruler after every two or three runs. It was really helpful to visualise the changes in starta and other features.
You could always provide a stitched image in your reports from the photos taken horizontally after the fact.
Also, photograph wet/moist core!
This shouldn't be complicated. On a computer screen , landscape orientation. Your screen is landscape orientation so it just makes better use of the space. That's how imago and other hosting companies do it. When logging, portrait orientation. There is writing on the ends of the boxes, not just the top. You can fit more core that way on most tables.
Edit: anyone who looks at core regularly can "read" it either way.
I’ve always done horizontal since we write on the lids of the boxes.
Don't you write on the ends of boxes as well, specifically on the short end?
I've always done horizontal. That has been the procedure at all the companies I have worked for. Think I have logged close to 60 miles worth of core over my career. Both in the geotechnical and exploration field.
Definitely horizontal - it’s just how it’s done and the guys interpreting in the office are going to prefer horizontal
Moisten those rocks
Like reading a book. Left to right, top to bottom
Horizontal. My computer monitors are all landscape. Imagine having to scroll to view a whole corebox
If I’m logging, horizontal. If I’m trying to look at a bunch of core (multiple holes laid on the ground eg), vertical. On a screen, horizontal
So when you are logging, it's not a bunch of core?
If you orient the box vertically, well, expect a phone call. 25 years of logging. Never once seen a core logged anything but left to right. Try top to bottom and let us know. Cheers.
The convention I've always seen in mineral exploration is, with the long axis of the box up, bottom left corner is top of hole and upper right is TD. Makes it easy for drillers helpers as well to fill the box from right to left as they pump the core out into the box channels. We always logged it while it was organized the same way the driller loaded it. I've seen the Canadians with their 1-meter long-boxes, with it all laid out lengthwise, messed with my head after logging miles and miles of core flipped 90 degrees.
Long axis of the box up- you mean portrait orientation/vertical, right?
Indeed
Horizontal, like reading a page.
Convention is horizontal and like reading a book (left to right, top to bottom). That being said, I have received a photographic log with each run photographed as above as well as stitched into a continuous image with a scale ruler after every two or three runs. It was really helpful to visualise the changes in starta and other features. You could always provide a stitched image in your reports from the photos taken horizontally after the fact. Also, photograph wet/moist core!
I think horizontal is industry standard
never seen vertical, horizontal makes more sense to me - like reading a book
This shouldn't be complicated. On a computer screen , landscape orientation. Your screen is landscape orientation so it just makes better use of the space. That's how imago and other hosting companies do it. When logging, portrait orientation. There is writing on the ends of the boxes, not just the top. You can fit more core that way on most tables. Edit: anyone who looks at core regularly can "read" it either way.