Stanislav Kutuzov felt the drillhead he was controlling smash into the rock more than 100 metres below him high on a glacier in the Pamir peaks of Tajikistan. The ice core samples it took could help ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the ...
PALMYRA — Long before Glacial Till Vineyard and Winery was established southeast of Lincoln — hundreds of thousands of years before — ice sheets pushed clay, gravel and sand from the deep north across ...
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Scientists Drilled So Deep Into the Center of the Earth, They Knocked on the Mantle’s Door
To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth. Scientists drilled the deepest core yet and recovered serpentinized peridotite that forms ...
Expedition chief Evan Miles (right) and fellow glaciologist Stanislav Kutuzov (left in blue) supervise the drilling - Copyright AFP Prakash MATHEMA Expedition chief ...
The climb had to be done in stages through a rocky moonscape, crossing a sea of spiky ice and then the snow of the domed summit with its staggering views across Central Asia. They then took a week to ...
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