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radioactivity well logging [1 record]

Record 1 2000-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Geological Prospecting
  • Geophysics
DEF

The recording of the natural or induced radioactive characteristics of subsurface formations.

CONT

Radioactive Logging. These methods make use of natural or induced radioactivity, that is the emission of gamma rays or neutrons, in the formations penetrated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Prospection géologique
  • Géophysique
CONT

[...] les méthodes de diagraphie de radioactivité [...] mesurent la radioactivité soit naturelle, soit provoquée, de terrains dont on peut ainsi déterminer la nature pétrographique par corrélation avec l'étude géologique des déblais de forage.

Spanish

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