Sentences with phrase «several drill cores»

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The team members dove to the reef and took several cores from large, blobby dome - shaped Porites lobata corals using an underwater hydraulic drill powered by vegetable oil.

I retired to travel with my late husband mr lott who worked in Kuwait as a driller His death a year and a half ago was sudden and unexpected and rocked me to my core but I know he would want me to move on now Before retiring I built several...

In the old testing era, some schools managed to boost scores with test prep drills, but when the new more rigorous Common Core tests came in several years ago, most saw their scores plummet.

Several large international projects have succeeded in drilling ice - cores from the top of the Greenland inland ice through the more than 3 km thick ice sheet.

For those curious about this particular drilling project, here's a short video report I put together several years ago after roaming Greenland for several days, including a flight up to the summit and the metal tube standing where this core was extracted.

Several years ago, the team assembled an arched metal building to house the high - tech, computer - controlled drill used to extract the cores in sections that average 2.7 meters in length — but the building's now nearly covered in snow.

For example, to obtain temperature records from tree rings, scientists drill cores into several trees that are growing in a region.

The team members dived to the reef and took several cores from large, blobby dome - shaped Porites lobata corals using an underwater hydraulic drill powered by vegetable oil.