Sentence examples for rock study from inspiring English sources
Capillary pressure analysis is an important piece of every reservoir rock study.
R&D in this area includes underground space development, construction and utilization of underground rock caverns, geological mapping and modeling for underground space development, numerical modeling of tunneling and tunnel support in soil and rock, study of ground shock propagation and its effect on underground structures, and properties of rock material and rock mass under dynamic loading.
Its rock studies have shed new light on the Red Planet's wetter and warmer past.
They believe further lunar rock studies could help scientists better understand how the moon formed and why it's so arid compared with Earth.
In this review, we summarize and discuss new findings and major progresses that have been made in fault rock studies of accretionary prisms.
In the following subsections, we document primary results of fault rock studies that were obtained during Expedition 316 (Kinoshita et al. 2009) and post-expedition research.
Nevertheless, in the last decade, our understanding of earthquake faulting in subduction zones has greatly improved through fault rock studies in accretionary prisms.
(b) Improved view of earthquake faulting in subduction zones after fault rock studies in the NanTroSEIZE and the Shimanto accretionary complex.
A further discovery made using fault rock studies in the exhumed accretionary complexes is the fluidized rocks within or along the margin of the tectonic mélanges, which are thought to represent paleo-subduction thrusts.
However, the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program IODPP) Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) and fault rock studies in accretionary prisms exhumed from source depths of subduction earthquakes have greatly improved our understanding of earthquake faulting in subduction zones.
"We can go pick up the rocks, study the minerals, and basically get timescale information about an eruption that happened, let's say, 100,000 years ago," Kahl says.
