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...

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...

agents. Rotary drilling is the main method of drilling for minerals and it has also been used for ice drilling. It uses a string of drill pipe rotated from...

first drilling of the Greenland Ice Core Project went only a few hundred meters into the glacier ice. But from 1989 to 1992 GRIP successfully drilled a 3029-meter...

Papers". Ice Drilling Program. Retrieved December 12, 2021. "Equipment". Ice Drilling Program. Retrieved December 12, 2021. "School of Ice – Ice Drilling Program...

capable of drilling through thousands of metres of the Earth's crust, using large "mud pumps" to circulate drilling fluid (slurry) through the drill bit and...

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...

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

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...

expected to be drilling through to the base of the ice sheet by 2020. Much of the camp set up for the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling Project (NEEM)...

life, preserved in drilled samples. Scientific drilling is carried out on land by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) and...

the planning phase of the drilling. The drilling portion of the project was to have begun during 1974, but the actual drilling was delayed until 1976. Finally...

this season, setting a single-season deep ice core drilling record in 100 days. On July 26, 2010, drilling reached bedrock at 2537.36 m. The November/December...

area". The controversy 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...

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...

temperature on Earth of −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K). Research includes ice core drilling and magnetometry. Vostok (Russian for 'east') was named after Vostok...

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...

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...

used to remove the burr left from a drilling or tapping operation. Used almost exclusively for deep hole drilling of medium to large diameter holes (approximately...

The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) is a multinational European project for deep ice core drilling in Antarctica. Its main objective...

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

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

Antarctica. She is the Director of Education and Outreach for the US Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO), responsible for outreach efforts highlighting...

Herbert T. Ueda (April 17, 1929 - June 13, 2020) was an American ice drilling engineer. Ueda was born and raised in the Puyallup Valley in Washington....

two sides of this debate: support for drilling and the opposition of drilling. Most of the supporters for drilling are big oil companies and political campaigners...

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...

Isis Naija Gaston (born January 1, 2000), known professionally as Ice Spice, is an American rapper. Born and raised in the Bronx, New York City, she began...

notable of which are Mechanical Ice Drilling Technology, Thermal Ice Drilling Technology and Geotechnical and Exploration Drilling in the Polar Regions. Talalay...

ice below the surface. PRIME-1 is composed of two components, both of which will be mounted to a commercial lunar lander: The Regolith and Ice Drill for...

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