Sentences with phrase «meter deep core»
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.
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His team drilled sediment cores up to 10 meters deep.
As the researchers move deeper into the harder granites of the peak ring, they will core more slowly, obtaining a 3 - meter core about every 2 hours.
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.
On the average it is 2,200 meters deep; its climatic history is being learned through the analysis of deep cores.
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.
These bubbles had disappeared completely by 1100 meters, most probably as a result of the diffusion of gas molecules into the ice lattice, and this, together with the formation below 1200 meters of an oriented crystal fabric (characterized by a strong vertical orientation of crystallographic c axes) is believed to be responsible for the greatly increased ductility of the deeper cores.
The researchers extracted nine - meter (30 - foot) deep sediment cores that they then analyzed in a laboratory.
A core can be collected in a few hundred meters depth of a few kilometers deep near trenches.
«Deep - sea cores usually have from 10 cm to a meter (about 4 inches to 3 feet) of core corresponding to the PETM,» said Kump.
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.