Key terms | Answer |
Oxygen-rich conditions | |
The older rock surrounding an igneous intrusion | |
This process occurs as minerals come out of solution | |
The volume of pore space in a rock | |
The process in which plankton is converted into petroleum | |
A large, synclinal, confined aquifer under hydrostatic pressure | |
The pressure at a point in a body of water due to the weight of an overlying column of water | |
The diagenetic process by which peat is turned to coal by the effects of heat and pressure during burial | |
A borehole that is lined with a casing, which is producing water | |
An opencast mine for poorly consolidated material such as sand, gravel, clay and coal | |
Insoluble products of chemical weathering | |
A geological situation that concentrates petroleum in one place | |
The amount by which the metal is concentrated to make an ore deposit | |
Highly mechanised method of underground mining | |
The removal of water from any source | |
Impermeable rock above the reservoir rock preventing further upwards migration of petroleum | |
Red tropical soil made of hydrated iron and aluminium oxides | |
Fine-grained waste produced during mineral processing | |
Process that moves sediment along the coast | |
Where water is injected below or natural gas in injected above the oil to maintain the pressure | |
Waste rock piled up on the ground | |
The name for the Carboniferous-age coal-bearing strata | |
Releasing water stored behind a dam to turn a turbine to generate electricity | |
The movement of petroleum from a source rock to a reservoir rock | |
Amount of metal in the ore | |
Mining from surface quarries | |
A body of porous and permeable rock capable of storing and yielding significant amounts of water | |
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