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Title Comment Keywords
Evaluating Landslide Risks 20:46 - 21:52 (01:06) / 1.7 MB landslide, "landslide risk", drilling, "Ann Meeker"
Introduction to Geophysics 00:40 - 02:00 (01:20) / 1.5 MB introduction, "oil well", "James Sadd", "Soviet Union", drilling, oil, well, "Earth's interior"
Possible Landslide 21:38 - 22:57 (01:19) / 1.7 MB "Ann Meeker", "mass wasting", landslide, creep, slump, mitigation, building, construction, drilling, geologist, structure, soil, sampling, "grain size", moisture, color, slope, fill, engineering
Final Report 22:57 - 24:28 (01:31) / 1.8 MB "Ann Meeker", "mass wasting", landslide, mitigation, construction, "core sample", data, drilling, map, "cross section", engineering, stability, slope, drainage, vegetation
Monitoring Groundwater 22:30 - 23:54 (01:24) / 2.2 MB "Jim Goodrich", groundwater, "surface water", well, basin, aquifer, pollution, "Orange County", sampling, drilling, mitigation
Glacial Flow 05:25 - 06:38 (01:13) / 1.6 MB "Louis Agassi", "James Zumberge", glacier, "glacial flow", glaciologist, drilling, Swiss, friction, creep, bedrock, "basal slip", "glacial melt", snout
Ice Core Sampling 19:30 - 20:38 (01:08) / 1.5 MB "Chester C. Langway Jr.", Greenland, "Greenland Ice Core Program", "continental glacier", "ice sheet", drilling, glacier, "glacial ice", climate, weather, "ice core"
Age of Ice 20:38 - 21:09 (00:31) / 0.7 MB Greenland, "ice core", drilling, "geologic age", season, "carbon-14 dating", glacier, "glacial ice", "Greenland Ice Core Program"
Living With the Earth: Preserving the Legacy 30 minutes / n.a. oil, energy, drilling, technology, geothermal, gas, resource, power, exploration, "fossil fuel"
Seismic Waves 05:00 - 06:15 (01:15) / 1.8 MB "Stephen Scott", "seismic wave", oil, "Vibra-seis truck", drilling, "electronic receiver", geophone, "reflection seismogram", subsurface, image
Subsurface Depth Map 06:15 - 07:00 (00:45) / 0.8 MB "Stephen Scott", seismogram, oil, "rock formation", subsurface, structure, hydrocarbon, drilling, reservoir, mapping
Oil In Pore Spaces 07:00 - 08:17 (01:17) / 1.6 MB "Anthony Marino", Arco, Bakersfield, California, oil, deposit, well, drilling, reservoir, "sedimentary rock", sandstone, limestone, pressure, gas, "rock formation"
Horizontal Drilling 08:17 - 09:11 (00:54) / 1.1 MB "Anthony Marino", drilling, "horizontal drilling", oil, reserve, well, "water pressure"
Tapping Shallow Oil Deposits 09:11 - 10:27 (01:16) / 1.7 MB "Anthony Marino", drilling, "horizontal drilling", oil, production, well, technology, resource
Pakistan Oil 13:50 - 15:15 (01:25) / 1.6 MB "John Everett", "John Harner", oil, "Earth Satellite Corporation", gas, reserve, drilling, data, satellite, Pakistan, exploration, "spectral band"
Geothermal Power 21:32 - 22:25 (00:53) / 0.9 MB "Fred Teeters", geothermal, "Imperial Valley", California, crust, groundwater, magma, energy, "Earth's surface", drilling, steam
Brine 23:25 - 25:01 (01:36) / 1.7 MB "Fred Teeters", brine, groundwater, pressure, reservoir, drilling, well, nitrogen, steam, geothermal, power, energy, environment, "wind power", "photo-voltaic cell", structure
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