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111Plate Boundary Observatory PBO — The Plate Boundary Observatory or (PBO) is one of three components of the Earthscope project, along with USArray and SAFOD (the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth) [ [http://www.earthscope.org/ EarthScope: An Earth Science Program ] ] . The… …
112Chikyu Hakken — Japanese for Earth Discovery , is the name of the Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology, or JAMSTEC s outreach program to promote it s drilling vessel (D/V) Chikyu as a contribution to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. The… …
113Georges Matheron — Georges François Paul Marie Matheron (1930 August 7, 2000) was a French mathematician and geologist, known as the founder of geostatistics and a co founder (together with Jean Serra) of mathematical morphology. In 1968 he created the Centre de… …
114W71 — The W 71 nuclear warhead was a US thermonuclear warhead developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and deployed on the LIM 49A Spartan Anti ballistic missile. This was a component of an Anti ballistic missile defense system …
115Sampling variogram — In mathematical statistics, a sampling variogram is a graph that shows where a significant degree of causality (in this context, spatial dependence in sample spaces or sampling units) dissipates into randomness. A sampling variogram is obtained… …
116Tube well — A Tube well as the name implies is simply a tube or pipe bored into the underground reservoir, fitted with a strainer at the lower end and worked at the top by a pump, to lift water for irrigation.A Tube well is type of water well in which a long …
117Seasonal thermal store — A seasonal thermal store (also known as a seasonal heat store or inter seasonal thermal store) is a store designed to retain heat deposited during the hot summer months for use during colder winter weather. The heat is typically captured using… …
118Moose River Gold Mines, Nova Scotia — Moose River Gold Mines is a Canadian rural community located in Nova Scotia s Halifax Regional Municipality …
119Casing string — is a long section of connected oilfield pipe that is lowered into a wellbore and cemented. The pipe joints are typically about 40 ft [12 m] in length, male threaded on each end and connected with short lengths of double female threaded pipe… …
120Spontaneous potential logging — The spontaneous potential log, commonly called the self potential log or SP log, is a measurement taken by oil industry well loggers to characterise rock formation properties. The log works by measuring small electric potentials (measured in… …
