ice drilling began in 1840, when Louis Agassiz attempted to drill through the Unteraargletscher in the Alps. Rotary drills were first used to drill in...

rotary drilling, a method often used in mineral exploration for rock drilling. In the 1940s, thermal drills began to be used; these drills melt the ice by...

the term is used to describe drilling activities on the continental shelf, though the term can also be applied to drilling in lakes, inshore waters and...

Earth's crust. Small to medium-sized drilling rigs are mobile, such as those used in mineral exploration drilling, blast-hole, water wells and environmental...

camp facilities from NEEM, a previous Greenland ice core drilling site, to the EastGRIP site. Drilling is expected to continue until at least 2020. With...

Scientific drilling into the Earth is a way for scientists to probe the Earth's sediments, crust, and upper mantle. In addition to rock samples, drilling technology...

m of the ice cap. The shallow drill can take cores up to 50 m long and 74mm in diameter from the top 350 m of ice, and it does not require drilling fluid...

The Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) was an ocean drilling project operated from 1968 to 1983. The program was a success, as evidenced by the data and...

surrounds drilling for oil in this subsection of ANWR. Much of the debate over whether to drill in the 1002 area of ANWR rests on the amount of economically...

of a more sophisticated drilling rig, drilling to bedrock at Dye 3 began in the summer[when?] of 1979 using a new Danish electro-mechanical ice drill...

(CNR/Ca’Foscari Univ. of Venice) from Italy to conduct drilling expeditions worldwide and safeguard the data present in the ice - the memory of the ice - in an sanctuary...

The drilling site of the North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP or NorthGRIP) is near the center of Greenland (75.1 N, 42.32 W, 2917 m, ice thickness...

Pole of Cold, with the lowest reliably measured natural temperature on Earth of −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K). Research includes ice core drilling and...

Moreover, the practice of drilling could present a potential threat to the region as a whole. When companies are exploring and drilling they are extracting...

polar ice core drillings... and established the fundamental drilling technology for retrieving deep ice cores for climatologic archives." Polar ice caps...

wells. Offshore drilling presents environmental challenges, both from the produced hydrocarbons and the materials used during the drilling operation. Controversies...

environmental impact. Core drill Ice core Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Scientific drilling "What is Reverse Circulation drilling?". www.rangerdrilling...

Conoco forging ahead with Arctic drilling plans for summer of 2014 "ConocoPhillips puts Arctic drilling plans on ice". Fuel Fix. 2013-04-10. Retrieved...

An earth auger, earth drill, or post-hole auger is a drilling tool used for making holes in the ground. It typically consists of a rotating vertical metal...

This is a list of ice cores drilled for scientific purposes. Note that many of these locations are on moving ice sheets, and the latitude and longitude...

vessel designed for use in exploratory offshore drilling of new oil and gas wells or for scientific drilling purposes. In recent years the vessels have been...

following summer, the team was to drill down again to take a sample of that ice and analyze it. The Russians resumed drilling into the lake in January 2012...

distorted vocal samples. On "Princess Diana", Ice Spice addresses her rise to fame. "Gangsta Boo" puts a "drill spin" on Diddy's I Need a Girl (Part Two)...

2024, Ice Spice and Central Cee released "Did It First", described by Uproxx as a half-Jersey club, half-UK drill track that was "100% [Ice Spice's]...

semi-submersible, column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a Fred Olsen Energy subsidiary. It drilled seasonally for various companies...

freeboard of the ice as an indicator, which can be done by drilling a hole in it and monitoring the distance between the water in the hole and the ice surface...

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) was an international marine research program, running from 2003 to 2013. The program used heavy drilling equipment mounted...

Arctic ice pack is the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean and its vicinity. The Arctic ice pack undergoes a regular seasonal cycle in which ice melts in...

ANDRILL (ANtarctic DRILLing Project) is a scientific drilling project in Antarctica gathering information about past periods of global warming and cooling...

discuss the equipment and strategies used in ice drilling projects, such as the design of hot-water drills, equipment for water measurement and sampling...