Sentences with word «borehole»

A borehole is a deep hole that is drilled into the ground to extract water, oil, natural gas, or other resources from underground. Full definition
Little Ice Age cold interval in West Antarctica: Evidence from borehole temperature at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide.
The truth is that if you don't know how things work in borehole drilling business, you are likely going to struggle to make profits and keep the business going.
It hosts one of the shallowest offshore groundwater reservoirs globally, and Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 317 collected a wealth of borehole data in this region in 2009 and 2010 [Post et al., 2013].
Peter, when I pointed out what I considered to be the chief benefits of boreholes for understanding 17th century climate, those who find CET informative, which includes me, should be pleased rather than annoyed that it was my top choice for that comparison.
In fact, Bole township has a small water system and a number of mechanized boreholes at vantage points.
Besides, Talba said that the programme rehabilitated roads, constructed boreholes with hand pumps and market stalls, as part of its rural infrastructural development project in 19 communities that were ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgents.
The fact that Wahl and Ammann (2006) admit that the results of the MBH methodology does not coincide with the results of other methods such as borehole methods and atmospheric - ocean general circulation models and that Wahl and Ammann adjust the MBH methodology to include the PC4 bristlecone / foxtail pine effects are significant reasons we believe that the Wahl and Amman paper does not convincingly demonstrate the validity of the MBH methodology.
The cottage is supplied with crystal clear tested borehole water for times of drought.
Programme; state of the art ICT Centre for Federal Government Girls College, Onitsha; Free eye screening and treatment including provision of glasses for 5000 constituents; Annual charity programme for orphans, disabled persons, widows and less privileged; water borehole projects in many communities in her Constituency; and Primary Healthcare Centre at Umuerum in Ayamelum Local Council.
This can only be answered from longer time series; complemented, maybe by borehole measurements in this shelf permafrost.
He noted that the collaboration between the local assembly and his office has also culminated in the provision of a mechanized borehole system with four tanks and a solar panel for residents of Akyem Akokoaso in the Ofoase - Ayirebi constituency.
Then, chemical analysis of water samples collected from boreholes showed that fluids flows northeast before emerging at Baby Bare, 52 kilometers away.
Meanwhile, the situation has resulted in a water shortage over the past four days in Binbcheratanga, forcing residents to trek long distances to a single borehole for water at the risk of cholera.
One of them claimed it was possible to lower a thermometer down an ice borehole on a rope and detect the actual temperatures from way back when.
Additionally, the 9BS Group has offered to build three solar - powered mechanised boreholes at locations to be identified by the JAK Foundation, at the estimated cost of GHc 240, 000.
I did read what Climate Audit had to say about borehole measurements.
In fact, some of us that God has blessed are our own local governments — we build our houses, install boreholes to provide us water, tar the road and so on.
With this Geophysical borehole Observatory at the North Anatolian Fault GONAF, measurement accuracy and detection threshold for microearthquakes are improved many times over.
Malaria Free Clean Water from own borehole tapping into a mountain stream (50m deep - tested regularly) ACTIVITIES THAT CAN BE ARRANGED NEW!!!
A precisely tuned array of boreholes around a city or a nuclear power plant that resonate at the frequencies characteristic of quakes could thus dampen the vibrations and shield objects.
He published a paper in Science reconstructing climatic conditions in North America based on borehole record and concluded in the paper that present conditions still appeared to be within the range of natural variability.
The deepest place ever reached by human technology is the Kola Superdeep Borehole near Murmansk, Russia, the product of a Cold War inner - space race.
Scientists at The Geological Society of America (GSA) meeting in Denver will describe the potential of shale formations; challenges of deep borehole disposal; and their progress in building a computer model to help improve understanding of the geologic processes that are important for safe disposal of high - level waste.
Together with the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency of Turkey AFAD, several 300 meter deep holes are currently being drilled around the eastern Marmara Sea, into which highly sensitive borehole seismometers will be placed.
Unless you want to get deep into the denialist mindset (not an entirely bad thing, it is important to know your enemy) but at some point, perhaps where he claimed that there were boreholes reaching back to 1000AD, I began to go «what!?».
The cottages is situated on a small holding with clean borehole water and large open spaces...
«Our research shows that this risk is greatly reduced if injection points in fracking boreholes are situated at least 895m away from geological faults.»
He says that water for Jericho, which will be one of the first Palestinian areas to be given some autonomy, has become saline because of overabstraction through new boreholes dug by Israelis.
The McGill team analyzed samples from two permafrost boreholes which reached a depth of just 42 cm and 55 cms below the surface.
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