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• Basement
  Basement is rock below a sedimentary cover, often [[igneous]] or metamorphic. It is generally not of interest in exploration for oil and gas, but in so
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• Laurentia
  ...gion is made up of a [[basement]] older [[Precambrian]] [[Metamorphic rock|metamorphic]] and [[igneous rock]] that is mostly covered by a relatively thin cover of
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• Quartz
  ...For metamorphic quartz, the size of the crystals may represent increasing metamorphic grade; larger crystals form under higher temperatures and pressures ([[:fil | Schistose metamorphic
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• Magnetotelluric survey case history: volcanic terrain (Columbia River Plateau)
  ...r conductive sediments, which in turn overlie resistive [[Metamorphic rock|metamorphic]] or [[Granite|granitic]] [[basement]] rocks.
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• Main Central Thrust
  ...nic units of Himalaya<ref>Dèzes, Pierre, and Albrecht Steck. "Tectonic and metamorphic evolution of the central Himalayan domain in southeast Zanskar (Kashmir, In ...uding by lithology different between the hanging wall and the footwall, by metamorphic grade change from the hangingwall to the footwall, by the different U—Pb
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• Sandstone provenance and characterization
  ...or planning denritus rock back there. Origin rocks can be [[igneous]], and metamorphic rocks sedimnen. In the formation of clastic sedimentary rocks have experien ...ce rocks before reworking process, sandstone can composed by igneous rock, metamorphic rock or other sedimentary rock fragment. That’s why important to know whe
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• Continental drift
  ...e other. This is also applicable to the structures, including sedimentary, metamorphic and [[igneous]] structures. Also, mountain ranges of similar ages are found
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• Basement fault blocks and fault block patterns
  ...lt block pattern in sedimentary basins was formed in multiple tectonic and metamorphic episodes during the Archean and Proterozoic Eons. Basement tends to control
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• Reservoir
  ...dimentary rocks because generally it has primary porosity. [[Igneous]] and metamorphic rocks can be reservoir if there are in fracturing state (secondary porosity ...hey are formed from the detritus left over from the weathering of igneous, metamorphic, and older sedimentary rocks.<ref>Klein, C., and A.R. Philpotts, 2013, Eart
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• Sandstone
  ...artz arenites are first-cycle deposits derived from primary crystalline or metamorphic rocks which had a weathering process. Quartz arenites are common in the geo Lithic Arenites are characterized by unstable rock fragment such as volcanic, metamorphic clast and other, also chert or quartzose rocks can be fragmen of lithic are
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• Interpreting gravity measurements
  The range of densities for all rock types ([[igneous]], metamorphic, and sedimentary) is typically 1.60–3.20 g/cm³. The density va
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• Ti in zircon geothermometer
  ...Hoskin, P. W., & U. Schaltegger, The composition of zircon and igneous and metamorphic petrogenesis". Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 53 (1): 27–62. doi: ...nd temperatures conditions during metamorphosis. This helps identify the [[Metamorphic facies]] and thus the geologic setting of a rock formation.<ref>Ewing, T. A
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• Province, basin, system, play, and prospect
  ...ic process, is lined by '''[[basement]] rock''', which can be [[igneous]], metamorphic, and/or sedimentary rock. The '''basin fill''' includes the rock matter, or
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• Subduction zone
  ...tural high. This transportation enables the discovery of old sediments and metamorphic rocks on the uppermost part of accretionary prism. ...Winter<ref name=Winter>Winter, J. D. 2001, An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc.</ref> defines fractionation as me
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• Log analysis: lithology
  * Metamorphic and [[igneous rock]]s ===Metamorphic, igneous, and volcanic sequences===
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• Geologic mapping (UGM)
  ...litology. Dense contour line pattern indicates solid and hard rock such as metamorphic rocks, [[igneous rock]]s and sedimentary rocks that are resistant while the ...articles. We should know that what we’re sampling is hard rock (igneous or metamorphic rocks), soft rock, or unlithified sediment. If hard rock, we use pick point
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• Dolomite
  ...e is presently known mostly from ancient, deeply buried sequences and from metamorphic rocks.
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• Burial destruction
  ...ths, and shows of methane are not unusual where drilling through low-grade metamorphic rocks—even those at a grade high enough to contain graphite instead of [[
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• Growth strata
  ...images a siliciclastic drape sequence that onlaps and overlies a ridge of metamorphic basement rocks.
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• Cuba: Geology and regional setting
  ...s series]] in northern Venezuela have some similarities to Cuba's southern metamorphic massifs. In addition, the thick section of Upper Jurassic clastics of the [
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