From an examination of these cuttings, the geologist determines the type of rock and formations being drilled and estimates oil and gas content.The mud removes cuttings from the hole, lubricates and cools the bit and helps prevent a blowout if a high pressure area is punctured.Cuttings are small pieces of rock removed by the drill bit.
Grape vines are most easily grown from cuttings when the vines are bare and dormant.
She plants a creeper to create some privacy, then the magnolia, 10 roses behind her new fence; plants, cuttings, seedlings, vines.
Mr Day suggested leaving 'Vault' where it is, walling it up in a glass box, and putting around it the Press cuttings on the issue.
Isolation that allows the parental obsessions to burgeon unchecked: the walls are covered in Nicholas' newspaper cuttings about the war.
Sepia photographs show men with picks and shovels, shadowed by the cuttings they carved from the hilly terrain.
The only clue to the pain Hanabeth has endured for 12 months is a scrap book of press cuttings about the Bali bombs.
