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cataclastic
Oil & gas; Oilfield

Pertaining to a type of metamorphic rock with shearing and granulation of minerals caused by high mechanical stress during faulting or dynamic metamorphism, typically during ...

littoral
Oil & gas; Oilfield

Pertaining to an environment of deposition affected by tides, the area between high tide and low tide. Given the variation of tides and land forms from place to place, geologists ...

sinistral
Oil & gas; Oilfield

Pertaining to a strike-slip or left-lateral fault in which the block across the fault moves to the left; also called a sinistral strike-slip fault. If it moves to the right, the ...

drag-bag
Oil & gas; Oilfield

Pertaining to a technique in which a packer flowmeter is partially inflated and dragged up the hole to give a continuous flow log. This obsolete technique was introduced in the ...

dextral
Oil & gas; Oilfield

Pertaining to a strike-slip fault or right-lateral fault in which the block across the fault moves to the right. If it moves left, the relative motion is described as sinistral. ...

spectral
Oil & gas; Oilfield

Pertaining to a spectrum. The spectral content of a wavetrain or wavelet usually refers to its amplitude and phase as a function of frequency.

clean
Oil & gas; Oilfield

Pertaining to a sedimentary rock, such as sandstone or limestone, that contains only minimal amounts of clay minerals. Clean reservoir rocks typically have better porosity and ...

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