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core sample [′kȯr ‚sam·pəl] (geology) A sample of rock, soil, snow, or ice obtained by driving a hollow tube into the undisturbed medium and withdrawing it with its contained sample or core. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Far more striking were the formal correspondences between the sculptures, video, installations, and photographs on view, as among the blown glass and papier-mache balloons or the small white polystyrene balls affixed to a coil of barbed wire in Untitled (Barbed wire), 2005, the circles projected on top of the world map in Map of the World, 1992/2005, and the core sample that made up Hole and Wall, 2006. They wanted his electrical and mechanical expertise in designing a system that could drill and retrieve a core sample and hand it off to another device for analysis. Because she could count 92 years' worth of rings in that branch alone, she believed taking a core sample from coring the tree's trunk would prove the tree predated the Voyage of Discovery. |
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