Sentences with phrase «deep drilling»

But these could be just speed bumps on the path to even more deep drilling.

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.

However, recent measurements from a pilot borehole for the Campi Flegrei Deep Drilling Project suggest that stress has instead been accumulating in the crust22.

But findings from deep drilling in the Songliao Basin show that the climate swings on land were far more drastic, with average annual temperatures going up or down by as much as 20 °C over tens of thousands of years — a geological eyeblink.

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.

That's just one reason we need a tool like Planetary Deep Drill on the red planet and other mysterious worlds around our solar system.

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 years.

The Campi Flegrei Deep Drilling Project was set up by an international collaboration of scientists to assess the risks posed by the Campi Flegrei caldera, a geological formation just a few kilometers to the west of Naples that formed over thousands of years following the collapse of several volcanoes.

Deep drilling for seams of underground gas deposits rely on chemicals used in «fracking fluids,» which contaminate water sources when they leak.

However, Germany's Deep Drilling Program found that variations in radioactivity depended on the rock type, not depth.122]

The Planetary Deep Drill prototype has shown that it may be a practical approach.

As the resource remains open at depth, further deeper drilling will be required from underground, assuming the final feasibility is positive,» said Empire's managing director David Sargeant.

Other companies, like Falkland Oil and Gas, are pressing ahead with deeper drilling operations as the search for hydrocarbons continues.

It has a full 6» quill stroke that can handle deeper drilling applications than more basic machines.

Farmer suspects that seriously seeking traces of life requires deep drilling on Mars.

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.

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.

This year he'll return to the WAIS Divide drill site, 885 nautical miles from McMurdo Station, the hub of U.S. Antarctic research, for a second season of deep drilling.

He has been involved in numerous deep drilling programmes in Greenland (Camp Century, Dye 3, Renland, GRIP and North GRIP) and Antarctica (Byrd and now EPICA).

A second type of measurement occurred in Germany's Deep Drilling Program.

James Zachos, a paleo - oceanographer from the University of California at Santa Cruz, analyzed sediment cores obtained from deep drilling in the ocean and discovered that bottom - dwelling creatures with shells disappeared from the fossil record for a period of more than 40,000 years corresponding to the PETM.

However, the deeper you drill down into the why of circumstance, the more granular details you'll see and the more understanding you'll gain.

Source: January 2012 report by Common Cause New York entitled «Deep Drilling, Deep Pockets: Expenditures of the Natural Gas Industry in New York to Influence Public Policy.»

This also means, however, that in addition to taking longer to reach the desired spot, the relief well drillers are trying to hit a much smaller target the deeper they drill.

«A deep drilling project in Antarctica could commence within the next 3 - 5 years,» Fischer states.

«At present, two drilling expeditions have been accomplished with shallower targets, and, though not yet scheduled, we are hopeful that the deep drilling will occur,» Silver said.

Coauthor Eli Silver, professor emeritus of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, and others in the CRISP program decided to pursue a 3 - D seismic study, which must precede any deep drilling, and the project was funded by the National Science Foundation in 2009.

One common sentiment I hear from successful indie authors is that they pay close attention to the cover and will react to market circumstances and situations in order to maximize their chances of a customer doing that deeper drill into browsing their books.

It looks similar to stock, but with some definite aesthetic and functional differences that grow more apparent the deeper you drill into the software.

We are drilling back in time: The deeper we drill, the older the sediments get.»

Deep drilling in the Gulf of Mexico!

Amazing new seismic, deepwater, deep drilling, hydraulic fracturing and other technologies have led to discoveries of huge new reserves of oil and natural gas — and enabled companies to extract far more petroleum from reservoirs once thought to have been depleted.

One need only point to Shell's recent decision to restart its deep drilling efforts (since cancelled) in the Arctic.

Wind energy projects do all of the above except for deep drilling, and they are now the tallest structures in rural areas, especially on mountaintops which amplify their long - range visibility.

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