The manager of the plantation showed the scientists some test drilling cores that had been made in the 1990's.

Then the drilling cores were sent to Cologne by airfreight.

An orientated diamond drilling core program to provide data for a structural study has recently been completed.

The scientists analysed a coral drilling core, which had been extracted off the coast of Venezuela.

He said we were drilling cores in the bottom of the lake, looking for signs of dinosaurs.

"This situation seems to be stable, suggesting that the melting under the ice shelf does not increase," he wrote of the first drilling cores.

A geological timeline-created from a drilling core sample-runs along the platform walls.

Permission was given, and teams of engineers began drilling core samples and surveying in Alaska.

Fossils have also been found in the area deep shaft mines and in drilling core samples hundreds of feet down.

For him, the drilling core from Lac Yoa is much more than a chronicle of climate in the region.

It was discovered by accident by the Texas Department of Transportation workers while drilling core samples for a new highway.

By drilling cores at various points on the mound, his team revealed the various stages of its construction from the 10th to 12th centuries CE.

Using a mass spectrometer, X-rays, laser beams and a scanning electron microscope, they tried to wrest the secrets from the drilling core.

This eight-mile-wide crater is not well defined at the surface and was discovered by magnetic anomalies and supported by the study of well drilling cores.

So mud for drilling core selected base on type of evaluation to be performed (many coring operations specify a blend mud with minimum of additives).

Department researchers are uniquely advantaged in having close access to vast libraries of drilling core and well log data through the Energy Utilities Board in Calgary.

Magnetic susceptibility of fractured rock samples from drilling cores from Wanilla, 40 km north of Port Lincoln, Eyre Peninsula.

At sea far more often than it is in port, the Resolution has been circling the globe since 1985, drilling core samples from the sediments and volcanic rocks buried on the seafloor.

A diamond bit will be used in a 3 inch diameter core barrel for each of two drilling cores, one on the north and one on the south side of the dam.

The extent of desiccation is very hard to judge due to the reflective seismic nature of the salt beds, and the difficulty in drilling cores, making it difficult to map their thickness.

At the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Dr. Stoker reported that she and her colleagues had found vibrant communities of methane-producing microbes in drilling cores from those waters up to 500 feet deep.

Santos said results from eight wells drilled in PEL12 were disappointing with elevated levels of carbon dioxide found, but applied for a six-year renewal to unravel the "sweet spot" by seismic survey and drilling core holes.

High prices have encouraged War Eagle, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, to search for traces of germanium - which is imperceptible to the naked eye - by drilling core samples in an abandoned Mexican zinc mine.

In 1936 with Lewis MacNaughton, DeGolyer established the petroleum exploration consulting firm DeGolyer and MacNaughton, and Core Laboratories, Incorporated the same year to provide drilling core and fluids analysis.

Starting from August 1968, the ship embarked on a 15-year-long scientific expedition, the Deep Sea Drilling Program, criss-crossing the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between South America and Africa and drilling core samples at specific locations.