Concept information

Preferred term

petroleum geology  

Definition

  • The branch of economic geology that relates to the origin, migration and accumulation of oil and gas, and to the discovery of commercial deposits. Its practice involves the application of geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, structural geology and stratigraphy to the problems of finding hydrocarbons.

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URI

http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/6163

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