He was engineer, with Sir James Brunlees, of the original Channel Tunnel Company from 1872, but many years previously he had investigated for himself the question of a tunnel under the Strait of Dover from an engineering point of view, and had come to a belief in its feasibility, so far as that could be determined from borings and surveys.

The Cretaceous was also an important interval in the evolution of bioerosion, the production of borings and scrapings in rocks, hardgrounds and shells ( Taylor and Wilson, 2003 ).

This layer could have resulted from the intense heat and pressure of an Earth impact, but at the time of the borings it was dismissed as a lava dome — a feature uncharacteristic of the region's geology.

This was because the tunnel builders encountered unexpected quicksand which trial borings into the hill had not revealed.

The cylinder was positioned at 35 different places and a total of 175 borings made.

The well was also fed by seven borings of five inches in diameter, at intervals in a length of three hundred feet, which discharged into the well by a brick culvert three feet in diameter.

In 1896 David went to the Pacific atoll of Funafuti as part of an expedition under Professor William Sollas of Oxford in order to take borings which it was hoped would settle the question of the formation of coral atolls.

It was long suspected that the viaduct's structure contained concrete, but not until recent borings into the structure were made was it realised that the majority of the bridge was made of the material.

The main path was originally made to serve Red Crag Mine, which now consists of a series of pits and trial borings for iron ore, concentrated about 300 metres north of the tarn.

The chemical analysis of soil borings should be done during the design phase of any project involving concrete in contact with the native soil to check for the presence of sulfates.

It shows also how, in consequence of the folding of the strata and the cutting off of the uplifted parts, old rocks which should be tens of thousands of feet down are found in borings in East Anglia only 1000 feet or so below the surface.

Drinking water is often collected at springs, extracted from artificial borings ( wells ) in the ground, or pumped from lakes and rivers.

Image: FaringdonCobble. JPG | Numerous borings in a Cretaceous cobble, Faringdon, England ; these are excellent examples of fossil bioerosion.

Image: Cretaceous_hardground. jpg | Cretaceous hardground from Texas with encrusting oysters and borings.

Large diameter borings are rarely used due to safety concerns and expense, but are sometimes used to allow a geologist or engineer to be lowered into the borehole for direct visual and manual examination of the soil and rock stratigraphy.

Test borings and surface samples during the 1928-1930 construction of Frank D. Comerford Dam, in the Connecticut River, provided new geologic information regarding de-glaciation of the White Mountains, and became the namesake of the " Comerford Suite ".

Sponge Bioerosion | borings ( Entobia ) and serpulid worm encrusters on a modern shell of the bivalve Mercenaria in North Carolina.

While its construction had long been recommended by local officials, the Triborough Bridge did not receive any funding until 1925, when the city appropriated funds for surveys, test borings and structural plans.

Thus, burrows, trackways, trails and borings are all examples of biogenic structures, but not casts or molds of dead shells or other bodily remains.

Trace fossils may be impressions made on the substrate by an organism: for example, burrows, borings ( bioerosion ), urolites ( erosion caused by evacuation of liquid wastes ), footprints and feeding marks, and root cavities.

Trace fossils provide us with indirect evidence of life in the past, such as the footprints, tracks, burrows, borings, and feces left behind by animals, rather than the preserved remains of the body of the actual animal itself.

Petroxestes borings in a hardground from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio.

Trypanites borings in an Upper Ordovician hardground from northern Kentucky.

* Gastrochaenolites are clavate ( club-shaped ) borings also produced in calcareous hard substrates, usually by bivalves.

* Trypanites are elongated cylindrical borings in calcareous substrates such as shells, carbonate hardgrounds and limestones.

Bioerosion through time has produced a magnificent record of borings, gnawings, scratchings and scrapings on hard substrates.

Image: FaringdonCobble. JPG | Numerous borings in a Cretaceous cobble, Faringdon, England ; see Wilson ( 1986 ).

Image: BoredEncrustedShell. JPG | Sponge borings ( Entobia ) and encrusters on a modern bivalve shell, North Carolina.

Examination of such micritic ooids by scanning electron microscopy often shows evidence of microbial borings later filled by fine cement.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

Despite being a qualified engineer, a successful businessman, a multiple record-breaker in his own right and a highly effective advocate of his own cause, Campbell was not an easy man and seemed driven to emulate, if not surpass, his father's achievements.

In 1127, William Clito, a potential claimant to the English throne, seemed likely to become the Count of Flanders ; Stephen was sent by the king on a mission to prevent this, and in the aftermath of his successful election, William Clito attacked Stephen's lands in neighbouring Boulogne in retaliation.

The younger boy, Vespasian, seemed far less likely to be successful, initially not wishing to pursue high public office.

At first, this policy seemed successful, and Maximilian managed to secure the votes from Mainz, Cologne, Brandenburg and Bohemia for his grandson Charles V. The death of Maximilian in 1519 seemed to put the succession at risk, but in a few months the election of Charles V was secured.

His large novels from the period after this, once described unflatteringly by Henry James as examples of " loose baggy monsters ," have faded from view, perhaps because they reflect a mellowing in the author, who became so successful with his satires on society that he seemed to lose his zest for attacking it.

What tends to get overlooked was that in 1975 and 1976, it was the successful changing of Rose's primary position from the outfield to fill the void at third base ( 3B ) that seemed to solidify the Reds team for these 2 championship seasons as this move enabled the Reds to use power hitting outfielder George Foster more.

This tactic seemed to be successful ; after a year, the power balance became more favorable to the CPC.

Angered by what seemed to be unfair treaties and the withholding of vital provisions by the Canadian government, and also by the dwindling buffalo population, their main source of food, Big Bear and his Cree decided to rebel after the successful Métis victory at Duck Lake.

The invasion was initially very successful, and seemed capable of reaching Paris, where there was a great panic ; if Ferdinand and Thomas had pushed on, they might have ended the war at this point, but they both felt that continuing to Paris was too risky, so they stopped the advance.

The invasion was initially very successful, and seemed capable of reaching Paris, where there was a great panic ; if Ferdinand and Thomas had pushed on, they might have ended the war at this point, but they both felt that continuing to Paris was too risky, so they stopped the advance.

Kathleen Cohen's study of five French ecclesiastics who commissioned transi tombs determined that common to all of them was a successful worldliness that seemed almost to demand them shocking display of transient mortality.

Atlanta's main rivals were Toronto, whose front running bid that began in 1986 seemed almost sure to succeed after Canada had held a successful 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and Melbourne, Australia, who hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics and felt that the Olympic Games should return to Australia.

The case of the Hansa Stavanger, at this time off the Somali coast seemed sufficiently symbolic to justify another potentially successful rescue operation, though on a much larger scale.

R & B legends Kool and the Gang were hand-picked by frontman David Lee Roth to open the first two legs of Van Halen's tour-a decision that seemed baffling at first, but ultimately proved to be successful.

Whatever his dramatic ability may have been, he looked nothing like the successful actors of the day, and to him professional acting seemed an improbable career.

Meanwhile in Rome, Maximinus ' praetorian prefect was assassinated and the rebellion seemed to be successful.

There have been examples of Uncle Ben remaining alive in alternative timelines, including stories featured in Marvel's What If ( one of which he forces Peter to unmask in front of J. Jonah Jameson ), and a storyline of the 1994 Spider-Man animated series featured a universe where Uncle Ben had never died, and Peter Parker became a successful industrialist, having never really bothered to use his powers responsibly as everything always seemed to work out for him.

Lewis's band got cornier and schmaltzier as the Great Depression wore on, but this seemed to match the general public's taste, as he remained commercially successful during an era when many bands broke up.

Matthew Engel of ESPNcricinfo wrote that Gower's commentating career has been " so successful that his cricket seemed mere preparation.

Khan's career had seemed to hit a plateau at this point of time, and most of the films to follow for the next few years were only partially successful.

The surgery seemed successful, but the cancer eventually returned.

Public opinion, particularly in France and Britain, found it easy to side with democratic Finland, and demanded from their governments effective action in support of " the brave Finns " against their larger aggressor, the Soviet Union, particularly since the Finns ' defence seemed so much more successful than that of the Poles during the September Campaign.

Although the Screen Songs were successful, Fleischer felt that it wasn't enough ; Walt Disney also seemed to gain a great amount of fame through his sound cartoons as well.