Sentences with phrase «geological setting»

Second, we focus on geological settings where we feel we have particular expertise and a competitive advantage.

Gold, either in stand - alone geological settings or in association with copper, is our principal target.

All the specimens of Archaeopteryx so far recovered were found in the valley of the Altmühl River, in geological settings that represent this habitat — the Jurassic Solnhofen Archipelago.

More broadly, the Pisagua event has seismologists rethinking some basic ideas about the risk of earthquakes in similar geological settings elsewhere — places with deep - diving crustal plates, such as Japan and Indonesia.

The well intersected coals this week in a significant milestone aimed at proving that coal seam gas can still flow at abnormal depths if the right geological settings are present.

«By being a rotorcraft, we're able to fly to multiple sites tens to hundreds of kilometers apart to make these measurements in different geological settings.»

Geological settings changed, and the Andes came up in South America.

James Lienkaemper, an emeritus research geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, said the urban Hayward Fault near San Francisco also experiences interseismic creep, and is located in a similar geological setting to the Parkfield fault.

But CCS experts retort that capture technology will get cheaper rapidly as engineering experience accrues, and that it will be possible to store the gas, given the right geological settings.

Located about 20 kms NW of Meekatharra in WA, it is in a geological setting that is host to numerous current and past gold mining operations.

His face boasts a geological set of wrinkles, which fold seismically with each witticism or bold - faced lie he speaks.

Something similar happened off Norway 8000 years ago in a similar geological setting, Nisbet told New Scientist.

The manganese oxides were found in mineral veins within a geological setting the Curiosity mission has placed in a timeline of ancient environmental conditions.

«We can now see the geological settings during the formation of mineral deposits rather than simply at the present day.

As a result we gain a better understanding of the geological settings for deposit formation and can better predict worthwhile locations to explore.»

While other scientists looked at the distribution and spectra of the materials, Marchi focused on the geological settings.

Two of the strongest works are semi-abstract landscapes that give the pictographs a geological setting, embedding them in sediment of yellow, red or green (day) or blue and brown (night, with rats).

Here we use aerogeophysical measurements to constrain the geological setting of the onset of an active West Antarctic ice stream.

critically re-examined elevated marine deposits in Bermuda, and concluded that their geological setting, sedimentary relations, micropetrography and microfaunal assemblages were inconsistent with sustained intertidal deposition.