Sentences with phrase «core drilling team»

When an asteroid the size of Texas is headed for Earth, the world's best deep core drilling team is sent to nuke the rock from the inside.

Not exact matches

Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck lead a team of deep core drillers to a giant asteroid to destroy it before it hits earth.

Combine workouts and drills produced varying value, but medical evaluations and team interviews with players provided essential cores.

Dr Bayrakci and the team will collect cores of rocks and take fluid and microbial samples using two specialist robot drills.

During the six - week expedition, the team plan to drill at 11 sites in water depths of 720 to 1,770 metres and recover cores between 50 and 70 metres in length.

The team members dove to the reef and took several cores from large, blobby dome - shaped Porites lobata corals using an underwater hydraulic drill powered by vegetable oil.

Thompson's Ohio State University team returned to the Quelccaya ice cap in the southern Andes in 2003 to drill a new set of ice cores.

His team drilled sediment cores up to 10 meters deep.

Quelccaya is so remote that on one of his first treks to drill for ice core samples, Thompson and his team could not get their drill and generator to the work site.

The team were able to draw these conclusions by analysing new data from the chemical composition of the fossilised shells of sea surface and seafloor organisms from that period, taken from drilling cores from the ocean floor in the South Atlantic.

The research team drilled two ice cores from a glacier on Mt. Hunter's summit plateau, 13,000 feet above sea level.

To determine the timing of the river, the team drilled cores through the dried Ghaggar - Hakra river bed and analysed the layers of river sediments that had built up over time.

The team based its analysis on ratios of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in ice cores drilled in East Antarctica.

Geoscientist John Higgins (right) of Princeton University and his team drilled at three sites, hauling tents and equipment, such as a drill bit filled with an ice core.

The team used a 300 - metre deep core drilled through the layers of sandstone and claystone at a site on the Illawarra plateau.

The research team's coring drill, seen here at sunset, bores deepinto Arizona's Painted Desert to extract ancient stone.

Next, Potts and his team plan to analyze a new, 166 - meter deep drill core obtained near another Middle Stone Age archeological site at Olorgesailie.

Here, at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide, Kendrick Taylor and his team of glaciologists drill into ancient ice to pull up ice cores, which trap bubbles of the atmosphere from the time that ice fell as snow.

The team will switch drill bits from the large one that takes ice cores as it goes to a smaller one only a few centimetres in diameter, which will melt its way down using a sterile silicone fluid.

To confirm his theory, Sager's team drilled core samples and bounced seismic waves through Tamu's layers to determine its composition.

While a team of Russian scientists were drilling ice core samples from their Vostok base in Antarctica, new satellite imagery revealed the outline of a lake the size of New Jersey buried two miles underneath the ice.

A team of scientists will drill into the core of the ice in Eastern Antarctica.

Sediment cores the team collected by drilling in front of the current Cosgrove Ice Shelf indicate that relatively warm ocean waters dissolved the vast ice shelf and even some of the glacier behind it about 2000 years ago, they recently reported.

When Kaser's team looked at ice cores previously drilled at two sites high in the western Alps — the Colle Gnifetti glacier saddle 4,455 m up on Monte Rosa near the Swiss — Italian border, and the Fiescherhorn glacier at 3,900 m in the Bernese Alps — they found that in around 1860 layers of glacial ice started to contain large amounts of soot.

Several years ago, the team assembled an arched metal building to house the high - tech, computer - controlled drill used to extract the cores in sections that average 2.7 meters in length — but the building's now nearly covered in snow.

The team obtained ice cores drilled by Ohio State University paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson.

The ice is 200 meters or 600 feet thick and it is not trivial to drill through that much ice, but it can be done, and the British Antarctic Survey is aboard with a team of experts to do so to get sediment cores from the bottom below the ice:

A very good example of Antarctic monitoring of global warming is an ice core two kilometres long and equivalent to 150,000 - year record of warmth, cold and warmth, that a French - Soviet drilling team at Vostok Station in central Antarctica produced in 1985.

The team had been examining cores drilled from the Antarctic ice to «read» the pattern of temperatures of the past.

The team members dived to the reef and took several cores from large, blobby dome - shaped Porites lobata corals using an underwater hydraulic drill powered by vegetable oil.

In 2006, a joint U.S. - Chinese team drilled four cores from the summit of Naimona» nyi, a large glacier 6,050 meters (19,849 feet) high on the Tibetan Plateau.

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