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time-lapse
Oil & gas; Oilfield
Pertaining to techniques in which the same quantity is measured at different times in the life of a reservoir. Normally the only change in a time-lapse measurement or survey will ...
disharmonic
Oil & gas; Oilfield
Pertaining to structures in which the shapes of adjacent layers differ or do not conform to one another. Folds of rock layers that have different mechanical properties or ...
incompetent
Oil & gas; Oilfield
Pertaining to strata that are relatively ductile and tend to flow under stress rather than deform by brittle faulting or fracturing. The bed thickness of incompetent beds tends to ...
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