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Components of two soil-sampling methods: rubber-balloon (left) and drive-core (right) (34,962 bytes) Soil sampling by rubber-ballon method (87,799 bytes) Determining soil volume by rubber-balloon method (38,733 bytes) Drive-core smapler being lowered into borehole (44,179 bytes) Preparing to extrude samples from core barrel (40,791 bytes)

Components of two soil-sampling methods

Soil sampling by rubber-balloon method

Determining soil volume by rubber-balloon method

Drive-core sampler being lowered into borehole

Preparing to extrude samples from core barrel

Extruding samples from core barrel (42,006 bytes) Processing samples after removal from core barrel (39,427 bytes) Weighing core sample (27,564 bytes) Packaging core samples for transport /storage (23,540 bytes) Drilling deep test hole UZB-3 (28,065 bytes)

Extruding samples from core barrel

Processing samples after removal from core barrel

Weighing core sample

Packaging core samples for transport/storage

Drilling deep test hole UZB-3



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