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ORIENTED DRILL CORE PROTRACTOR TEMPLATES

CONTENTS
Wrap around beta angle protractors
Wrap-around alpha/beta angle protractor
Scaled logging sheets for simplified rapid logging

These templates are the printer-resolution attachment to the Holcombe Coughlin &
Associates publication: HCA_oriented_core_procedures, which can be downloaded
from:
http://www.holcombecoughlin.com/downloads/HCA_oriented_core_procedures.pdf

The templates are a copyright product of Holcombe Coughlin & Associates.

They may be used and distributed freely provided the Holcombe Coughlin &
Associates logo remains visible to identify our authorship.

Rod Holcombe Holcombe Coughlin & Associates 2008-9

ORIENTED DRILL CORE WRAP-AROUND PROTRACTORS
Each of the following pages contains a protractor for a specific size of drill core.
Choose the appropriate chart for the drill core size. Check the core diameter to choose the
appropriate template within each core size grouping.
The protractors are in two groups: beta angle protractors and alpha/beta angle protractors.
In practice I find that the beta angle protractor alone is best as it is least cluttered with lines
(and alpha angles are easily measured using a protractor).

Set page scaling to NONE in Print manager and print the protractor on transparent film (laser
printer is best). Heavy duty film is best.
Align the reference line (can be either a bottom mark or top mark) with the central zero line.
Wrap graph around core.
Use the alpha angle protractor markings to get the angle between the ellipse and the core
axis (alpha angle).
Read off the clockwise 360 beta angles to the ellipse (beta angle) using the spaced vertical
lines.

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LOW RESOLUTION LOGGING TEMPLATES
The following pages contain logging templates at different scales for rapid low resolution
summary logging of drill-core.

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Holcombe Coughlin and Associates is a

consortium of two independent European and
Australian-based consultancies specialising in the
application of modern structural techniques to the
global resource industry. We operate globally from
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email: info@holcombecoughlin.com

Tim Coughlin (MSc, PhD) is a specialist in

structural geology and exploration applied to
Phanerozoic orogenic systems. Tim has some
20+ years of applied research and mineral and
petroleum exploration experience. He has
worked on target-generation and deposit-scale
problems in the central and northern Andes, the
western Tethyan, the Papuan fold belt, northern
China, West Africa, Siberia and the Russian Far
East, and eastern Australia. Tim has consulted to
a wide range of resource industry clients and has
held senior staff positions with well-known
medium and large-scale companies.
email: info@holcombecoughlin.com

Rod Holcombe (PhD, Stanford) is a specialist in

field structural geology, particularly in multiply
deformed, and sheared metamorphic rocks. He
has 40+ years of experience (teaching, research,
and consulting), including more than 15 years of
contract research and consulting to the minerals
exploration industry. He has serviced exploration
and geotechnical projects in Australia (Mt Isa,
Yilgarn, Lachlan and NEFB, Northern Territory),
South America (Brazil, Argentina, Peru,
Uruguay), North America (Alaska, New Mexico,
British Columbia), Europe (Finland, Balkans),
Africa (Guinea, Mali, Congo, Tanzania), Siberia,
and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Laos).
Holcombe Coughlin & Associates
Australia: Computer applications and other products
ABN: 29863107460
developed by Rod for use by structural and
PO Box 593, Kenmore, Qld 4069,
exploration geologists can be found at:
Australia: Ph +61 7 33786326 http://www.holcombe.net.au/software/

email: rod@holcombe.net.au

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