How to Use geophone in a Sentence
geophone
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Geophones on the surface picked up the waves on their return and provided a depth reading.
—William Grimes, New York Times, 2017-08-25
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To conduct the study, the researchers planted devices known as geophones near wild elephants in Kenya.
—Douglas Quenqua, BostonGlobe.com, 2018-05-08
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The geophones record the scattering and reflection of vibrations to image underground structures, and tease out problems that may lay under the surface.
—Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 2017-02-07
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That observation argues for the installation of permanent geophone networks in tourist areas around the Dead Sea.
—The Economist, 2017-12-13
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Raspberry Shake solves this problem by combining a vertical-component geophone with accelerometers in the Raspberry Shake 4D.
—Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 2020-12-17
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