Sentences with phrase «metre deep boreholes»

The company was drilling two 200 - metre deep boreholes to get the geotechnical information it needs to make the case for the tunnel it wants to drill — about 100 to 200 metres below ground — for the pipeline to cut through the mountain and conservation area.

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To find out how such a large slip — greater than 50 metres in places — happened, seismologists on board Japan's deep - sea research vessel Chikyu drilled boreholes nearly 850 metres deep into the seabed around the plate boundary that ruptured in 2011.

Even the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, the deepest borehole on Earth, reaches no deeper than 12,262Borehole in Russia, the deepest borehole on Earth, reaches no deeper than 12,262borehole on Earth, reaches no deeper than 12,262 metres.

You will find Güralp instruments gathering seismic data in the harshest of environments, from the Antarctic ice sheet; to boreholes 100s of metres deep; to the world's most active volcanoes and deepest ocean trenches.

In a system designed by NIBE Energy Systems Ltd of Chesterfield, 11 boreholes 100 metres deep were drilled into the school grounds before landscaping.