Sentences with phrase «taking rock samples»

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The miners took me into the stopes, the tunnels where they mine gold, to sample the rocks.

We went back to South Africa in 1998, this time to Driefontein Mine, located about 40 miles southwest of Johannesburg, and took water samples, which are easier to work with than rock and less likely to be contaminated.

Dr Bayrakci and the team will collect cores of rocks and take fluid and microbial samples using two specialist robot drills.

Another robot, operated remotely from a ship, allowed the team to get a closer look at specific features in and around the caldera, and to take rock and water samples.

On August 2 drilling reached the fault zone, where scientists plan to install seismic instruments and take rock and fluid samples.

But analyses of rocks taken from one of the undersea ridges by teams in the past decade (samples obtained from sites marked with colored dots) show that the ridge's rocks are up to 1 million years older than Waianae is.

But when his team compared DNA sequences from the bacteria in the rock samples with those available in databases, he discovered an entire microbial ecosystem consisting of a wide variety of both archaebacteria and eubacteria, common «modern» bacteria that normally take up residence in lush places such as cheese and humans.

After taking the samples back to the lab, the team sterilized the outside of the rocks, carved away their outer layers, then incubated the exposed samples in 65 °C waters similar to those infiltrating the sea floor at the site — poor in oxygen but rich in chemicals such as dissolved hydrogen, sulfates, acetates, methanol, and dimethyl sulfide.

So, in April 2015 MBARI scientists sent down an SUV - size remotely operated vehicle to take footage of the vents and collect samples of the surrounding seawater, mud, rocks and animals.

Without a way to take direct samples from deep inside Earth, no one knows for sure if the mantle's boundary rocks are solid or liquid.

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The scientists brought their 1.55 metre cores to the surface in 1993, but it has taken another two decades for laboratory techniques to detect and interpret the significance of radioactive particle samples in the rock that could only have come from outer space — which is why scientists think the bedrock must have been exposed, possibly more than once.