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the treating of an emulsion with chemicals to break an emulsion without resorting to the application of heat.

a sorting criteria useful in screen selection.

mouth of river deposits, usually fan shaped with significant variation in composition, sorting and thickness. Quality of the reservoir rock may vary widely.

n: all of the properties relating to the grain-to-grain relationships of a rock. Textural properties include chemical composition, grain shape and roundness, grain size and sorting, grain orientation, porosity, and permeability. See clastic texture, crystalline texture.

n: a dynamic process by which different-sized sediments are separated from one another and deposited in different locations or layers as relatively uniform deposits. For instance, a high-energy mountain stream may leave only large cobbles and gravel in one location and carry finer sediments downstream to accumulate in a lower-energy environment, such as a lake.

a relative comparison of the formation to determine if there is a large difference between the size of the largest articles and the size of the smallest particles.