- Industry: Mining
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The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States Government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.
Founded on May 16, 1910, through the Organic Act (Public Law 179), USBM's missions ...
Factors, such as parent material, climate, vegetation, topography, organisms, and time, involved in the transformation of an original geologic deposit into a soil profile.
Industry:Mining
Failure by cracking under combined action of corrosion and stress, either external (applied) or internal (residual). Cracking may be either intergranular or transgranular, depending on metal and corrosive medium.
Industry:Mining
Failure in which the ultimate shearing strength of the soil is mobilized only locally along the potential surface of sliding at the time the structure supported by the soil is impaired by excessive movement.
Industry:Mining
Failure of a material, esp. a brittle material, due to the thermal stress of rapidly rising or falling temperature.
Industry:Mining
Faint magnetic polarization of rocks that may have been preserved since the accumulation of sediment or the solidification of magma whose magnetic particles were oriented with respect to the Earth's magnetic field as it existed at that time and place.
Industry:Mining
Fall flat down on the floor. In the early days of coal mining, igniting the gas was a very common thing; so, whenever an explosion took place, the colliers shouted to one another, "Squat, lads!"
Industry:Mining
Fencing placed around the mouth of a shaft, and lifted out of the way by the ascending cage.
Industry:Mining
