Sentences with phrase «drilling expedition»

It is a long time since a scientific ocean drilling expedition sailed from a UK port.

Three of these mentions were in the context of how ice impacts drilling expeditions in the Arctic, and the one mention on Fox News dismissed the problem entirely.

A recent drilling expedition to Mexico's dino - killing Chicxulub crater — the only mass extinction conclusively linked to an impact — found the asteroid hit sedimentary rock rich in sulfurs.

The Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project rapid response drilling expedition sought to sample and monitor the fault zone directly through a series of boreholes.

says James Mori, a seismologist at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University in Japan, a co-author of the rapid - response report and joint chief of the upcoming drilling expedition.

Professor Damon Teagle, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton and a veteran of numerous scientific ocean drilling expeditions, said: «It is very exciting for IODP to be using a British ship and new technologies to investigate the strange reactions that occur when seawater meets rocks of the upper mantle.

During a segment on Shell's drilling expedition in the Arctic, Burnett suggested that «more drilling» in the U.S. is a solution to high gas prices in California and across the nation, saying: «One way to bring down costs, of course, would be more drilling and that is a highly political topic.»

It is the first scientific ocean drilling expedition to use this type of remotely operated seabed rock drilling technology.

«International ocean drilling expedition to understand causes of the Indian Ocean 2004 earthquake and tsunami.»

«This ocean drilling expedition will for the first time drill scientific boreholes within the sediments entering this subduction zone, including the layer of sediment that eventually develops into the earthquake - generating fault,» Professor Henstock explained.

UPDATE: Today, scientists published their first results from a drilling expedition into Chicxulub crater, the buried remnants of an asteroid impact off the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico that killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

A new ocean drilling expedition will try to settle the question by drilling into crust where high temperatures are found unusually close to the sea floor, bringing life's thermal limit within reach.

Discussing the origin of transcriptional noise with Alvaro Sanchez; examining results from a drilling expedition at the Tohoku - oki fault; and looking at the potential benefits of snake venom with Kai Kupferschmidt.

Now, a drilling expedition under way in the Indian Ocean hopes to uncover the secrets of large underwater earthquakes that can trigger such tsunamis.

Drilling expeditions have reached this layer before, but as the basalt is difficult to pierce it happens rarely.

«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.

The next step for the subglacial methane hydrate work will be to secure more funding to embark on another drilling expedition to a deeper lake.