دیکشنری تخصصی مهندسی نفت - نسخه آنلاین

n: (slang) a person who prospects for oil, especially by using seismology. Also called doodlebugger. v: (slang) to explore for oil, especially by using seismic techniques in which explosive charges are detonated in shot holes to create shock waves (name taken from the resemblance of these explosions to the puffs of loose dirt thrown up by the doodlebug, or ant lion, when digging its funnel-shaped hole).

seismograph.

n: the physics of the earth, including meteorology, hydrology, oceanography, seismology, volcanology, magnetism, and radioactivity.

the science of the physical properties of the earth.

n: the study of earth vibrations.