Sentences with phrase «drill cores in»

The idea that sulfide - based photosynthesis was important during the Boring Billion is based on one limited data set from drill cores in northern Australia showing pigment molecules associated with sulfide - using bacteria.

If you drilled a core in the center of the surviving «strip» bark in the scarred spruce, you would get a huge growth pulse in the late 19th century; if you drilled a core at the edge of the surviving strip bark, you would get correlated but narrow widths.

Not exact matches

In 2017, drillers mostly focused on consolidating their positions in a few core areas and selling off other assetIn 2017, drillers mostly focused on consolidating their positions in a few core areas and selling off other assetin a few core areas and selling off other assets.

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.

The drill hole intersected a thick repetitive sequence of mafic and felsic sediments which showed no major structural deformation, a potential host for gold mineralisation, with geochemical analysis revealing alteration and mineralisation based on micro analysis of the cores by world class scientists from CODES in Tasmania.

PDC's primary focus continues to be on developing its approximately 2,600 horizontal drilling locations as of year - end 2016 in the Core Wattenberg Field located in Colorado and in its Delaware Basin assets in West Texas.

2017 Capital budget is focused on its best rate - of - return drilling in the Middle Core area of the Wattenberg Field as well as development of its Delaware Basin assets with a focus on holding leasehold through drilling

The Company continues to experience tremendous drilling success and is focused in the Kersey Area of the Middle core of the field.

PDC Energy is an exploration and production company headquartered in Denver, Colorado focused on value - added organic growth through active horizontal drilling programs and bolt - on acquisitions in its core areas.

NEWS RELEASE August 14, 2017 — Vancouver, BC — Japan Gold Corp. (TSX - V: JG)(OTCQB: JGLDF)(«Japan Gold» or the «Company») is pleased to announce that the Company's three compact portable diamond core drill rigs have arrived at Japan Gold's base of operations in Ikutahara.

Excellent Q1 Drilling Results; Longer - Term Results a Potential Catalyst: Prairie Provident recently completed a six - well drill program in its Princess and Wheatland (Wayne) core areas.

Core Gold Inc. [CGLD - TSXV; CGLDF - OTCQX] on Thursday March 22 announced plans for a Phase 1 exploration drilling program at its 100 % - owned Copper Duke project in Ecuador.

The results discussed in this news release are from drill core samples obtained by PQ and HQ - size triple - tube diamond core drilling using two PMC400 man - portable drill rigs owned by SAMJ and operated by Sumiko Resources Exploration & Development Co., Ltd. (a wholly owned exploration services subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.) The drilling program was fully supervised by SAMJ senior project geologists at the drilling site.

On the afternoon before the NBA Draft, in a warehouse gym off Interstate 49, Malik and Marcus sweat through two hours of intricate ball - handling drills and core - strengthening exercises.

That setup is so fundamental to the core of football's identity that it is literally a fundamental: the Oklahoma drill, whose variants all involved a.) compressed space and b.) at least two players pitted head - to - head in a potential high - impact situation.

Researchers established the first camp here in 1989, at the start of an international effort that drilled the 3,053 - meter - long Greenland Ice Sheet Project - 2 ice core, retrieving a record of climate over the previous 110,000 years.

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.

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.

Consider where astronomy would be without improvements in the telescope, or where studies of past climate would be without drilling technologies to pull up gigantic sediment cores.

When researchers drill until they reach bedrock, they can count back the years in the core from the time of drilling.

The analysis focuses on two ice cores drilled in 2013 from Mount Hunter in Alaska's Denali National Park, and an older ice core from Canada's Mount Logan.

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.

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.

The drill crew works around the clock, often in more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit heat, bringing up 10 - foot (3 meter) sections of core.

This is the ice core driller Tanner Kuhl with the blue ice drill on Taylor Glacier in Antarctica.

Scientists spent a month in Denali National Park in 2013 drilling ice cores from the summit plateau of Mt. Hunter.

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.

The researchers drilled long, core - shaped sediment samples from two boreholes at Polecat Bench in northern Wyoming's Bighorn Basin, east of Cody and just north of Powell.

Core samples were arranged in the order in which they were drilled.

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

But there are only so many wells to drill in that core area of the state.

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

This image shows a drill core of volcanic ash - hydrated lime mortar from the ancient port of Baiae in Pozzuloi Bay.

A narrow drill, RAID will excavate to 600 metres in about 7 days — compared with 5 years for a 3.4 - kilometre core such as EPICA's.

More than a decade ago, the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) drilled the oldest existing core, which contains 800,000 - year - old ice, from an ice dome in East Antarctica known as Dome C.

In 1998, while boring near the bottom of that long core, expecting to hit bedrock, the drillers brought up ice with crystals that were startlingly different from those usually found in glacial icIn 1998, while boring near the bottom of that long core, expecting to hit bedrock, the drillers brought up ice with crystals that were startlingly different from those usually found in glacial icin glacial ice.

In 2005, the European Consortium for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) drilled an ice core in Dome C on east Antarctica's plateau that stretches our record of the ancient atmosphere back 800,000 years (Quaternary Science Reviews, DOI: 10.1016 / j.quascirev.2010.10.002In 2005, the European Consortium for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) drilled an ice core in Dome C on east Antarctica's plateau that stretches our record of the ancient atmosphere back 800,000 years (Quaternary Science Reviews, DOI: 10.1016 / j.quascirev.2010.10.002in Antarctica (EPICA) drilled an ice core in Dome C on east Antarctica's plateau that stretches our record of the ancient atmosphere back 800,000 years (Quaternary Science Reviews, DOI: 10.1016 / j.quascirev.2010.10.002in Dome C on east Antarctica's plateau that stretches our record of the ancient atmosphere back 800,000 years (Quaternary Science Reviews, DOI: 10.1016 / j.quascirev.2010.10.002).

One such ice core, known as the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) core was drilled to a depth of more than two miles (3,405 meters), and much of it was analyzed in the DRI Ultra-Trace Laboratory for more than 30 different elements and chemical species.

The International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS) aims to identify a suitable site to drill a core representing Antarctica's oldest ice in the next two yeCore Sciences (IPICS) aims to identify a suitable site to drill a core representing Antarctica's oldest ice in the next two yecore representing Antarctica's oldest ice in the next two years.

The Thompsons have drilled ice cores from glaciers atop the most remote areas of the planet — the Chinese Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, Kilimanjaro in Africa, and Papua Indonesia among others — to gauge Earth's past climate.

For 2 months in 2013, the JOIDES Resolution, the ship for the International Ocean Discovery Program, drilled into the ocean floor sediments, retrieving cores of mud and rock that were then dated.

By studying iron extracted from cores drilled in rocks similar to these in Karijini National Park, Western Australia, UW - Madison researchers determined that half of the iron atoms had originated in shallow oceans after being processed by microbes 2.5 billion years ago.

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.

Although scientists have analysed gases from tiny bubbles trapped in ice cores drilled in polar ice caps, there are doubts about how closely the composition of the bubbles matches that of the atmosphere at the time they were trapped (see New Scientist, Science, 22 August).

«This drill core is likely to fill in the gap in our current environmental record and to provide exquisite details about the climate dynamics and the adaptive challenges during the Acheulean - to - Middle Stone Age transition,» he said.

Researchers speculate that primitive life could eke out an existence there, subsisting on a bare minimum of dissolved organic carbon — a notion bolstered by the recent discovery of bacteria within refrozen ice in a core drilled to 100 meters above the lake under Vostok Station (ScienceNOW, 9 December 1999).

He returned to Antarctica in 1964 for nine months to test ice core drills.

Now researchers are drilling cores to gather geological data in the African landscapes where human ancestors once lived.

Ice cores drilled from a glacier in a cave in Transylvania offer new evidence of how Europe's winter weather and climate patterns fluctuated during the last 10,000 years, known as the Holocene period.

Between 2004 and 2012, the study authors drilled 13 permafrost soil cores from various sites in Alaska, and measured the total amounts of mercury and carbon in each core.