Sentences with phrase «deep core drillers»

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

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

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

In March, Transocean sold its fleet of shallow water jack - up rigs to Norway's Borr Drilling BORR.NFF for $ 1.35 billion, saying it wanted to focus on its core deep - and ultra-deepwater rig market.

His team drilled sediment cores up to 10 meters deep.

Clow measured twice, once in 2011 and again in 2014, the temperature in a 3.4 - kilometer - deep (2 - mile - deep) borehole from which the West Antarctic Sheet Divide ice core had been drilled during an eight - year project that ended in 2011.

«Most people assume that it's a question of just drilling deeper for ice cores, but it's not that simple,» said Edward Brook, an Oregon State University geologist and co-author on the study.

Now, using two deep cores collected at two Ocean Drilling Program sites in the Southern Ocean, Jaccard and colleagues have reconstructed ocean records of productivity and vertical overturning reaching back a million years, through multiple glacial - interglacial cycles.

But much of what is known about this time period's climate comes from cores drilled deep in the ocean, Hren says.

Enter a new breed of drill, designed to do fast, cheap reconnaissance instead of extracting a single, intact ice core, as previous deep drills have done.

It is only recently that very deep cores have been drilled — and three of them contain ice more than 160,000 years old.

UNSW Australia study author and Ph.D. candidate Katarina David (left) preserves samples of moist rock collected by drilling a 300 - meter deep core through the layers of sandstone and claystone near Sydney, for later testing in the laboratory.

Through the NSF - funded South Pole Ice Core (SPICECore) project, researchers drill deep into the ice to extract ice cores.

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.

However, drilling deeper to collect a longer ice core does not necessarily mean finding a core that extends further into the past.

Camp Century was known to Colgan and other glaciologists as the site where the first deep ice core was drilled.

To help solve this issue, two deep ice cores were drilled at the remote dome summits Dome Fuji (DF) and EPICA Dome C (EDC) in Antarctica and were subsequently synchronized in time by matching identical volcanic events.

Field observations of microbes recovered from deep drill cores, deep mines, and the ocean floor, coupled with laboratory investigations, reveal that microbial life can exist at conditions of extreme temperatures (to above 110ºC) and pressures (to > 10,000 atmospheres) previous thought impossible.

A new 122 mm electromechanical drill for deep ice - sheet coring (DISC): 5.

NASA head Dan Truman (Thornton) recruits top deep - core oil driller Harry Stamper (Willis) to straighten out the American effort to drill into the asteroid and implant explosive charges.

In order to do this they call upon the help of deep core oil driller named Harry Stamper (Willis, Mercury Rising) and his crew to go up to the asteroid to drill a hole deep enough to place a nuclear warhead in and blow the rock apart.

I've just returned from the deep field site at Aurora Basin where the Australians are drilling a new 400 - meter ice core which we will analyze in my lab in Reno.

Many of the findings come from studies of core samples drilled from the deep seafloor over the past two decades.

«The Deepest and Most Rewarding Hole Ever Drilled»: Ice Cores and the Cold War in Greenland.»

Two deep ice cores have been drilled within the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA).

Drill deep core - hole to acquire data on temperature with depth, rock stresses, rock type and drilling conditions

The U.S. first started drilling deep polar ice cores in Greenland in 1956, with more drilling at Antarctica's Byrd Station a few years later.

Tree rings, coral skeletons, and glacial ice cores (Figure 3) are proxies for annual temperature records, while boreholes (holes drilled deep into Earth's crust) can show temperature shifts over longer periods of time.

Loutre and Berger's 2002/3 papers were soon followed by another landmark paper by Lisieki and Raymo (Paleoceanography, 2005), an exhaustive look at 57 globally distributed deep Ocean Drilling Project (and other) cores (paywalled here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004PA001071/full):

The new evidence lies within 1,500 - foot - long cores of rock that Kent and his coauthors drilled from a butte in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park in 2013, plus earlier deep cores from suburban New York and New Jersey.

(28) + The emerging picture of severe instability was reinforced by studies of cores drilled from the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps, and by deep - sea cores that covered much longer times.

Although the deep Law Dome core was drilled between 1987 and 1993, the record is still frustratingly incomplete.

The air has been sealed off in the bubbles when the ice was laid down, and extracted from cores drilled deep within the layered ice deposits.

His personal contribution to these programmes encompasses a very large spectrum of topics from a direct involvement in deep drilling activities to the more theoretical aspects of the interpretation of ice core data.

As part of the Dead Sea Deep Drill Core Project, Goldstein and other colleagues drilled deep below the lakebed of the Dead Sea in 2010 and 2011 to pull up more than 1,300 feet (400 meters) of sediment in a long column — a record of sediment deposits spanning 200,000 yeDeep Drill Core Project, Goldstein and other colleagues drilled deep below the lakebed of the Dead Sea in 2010 and 2011 to pull up more than 1,300 feet (400 meters) of sediment in a long column — a record of sediment deposits spanning 200,000 yedeep below the lakebed of the Dead Sea in 2010 and 2011 to pull up more than 1,300 feet (400 meters) of sediment in a long column — a record of sediment deposits spanning 200,000 years.

• Supervise the design and implementation of drilling program for deep core petroleum deposit 17 miles off the coast of Texas.