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I am a student looking for data for a GIS project to use in modeling subsurface lithology in ArcScene.
Does anyone have any suggestions regarding where I can find spatially-organized stratigraphic data including lithology for bore-holes?
It does not matter what country. As long as I have quality data, I am happy to work with it no matter the source.
IHS has several systems that have the information you need, but most of them are targeted to large corporate customers.
You can access many of them through your school, as I know they have agreements to license those systems to universities. I know geology and petroleum engineering schools in Canada use them.
To get links to csv-files containing lithologies quickly, try
https://pangaea.de/?q=lithology
These datasets are small, and they stem from academic projects.
You can also get an impression on how lithology data were used to create models of the subsurface: For Germany, try http://geotis.de (focus on geothermal energy - relatively shallow wells, but many deep ones, too), for the world try the online-gis http://www.onegeology.org; for USA, try http://seamless.usgs.gov.
The British Geological Survey provides free online access (through a web GIS) to scans of over a million borehole records.
Borehole records are produced from a geologist's or surveyor's observations of the rock core extracted from the ground. It typically includes locality, lithological descriptions with depth and thickness.
An example of a scan is:
