petroleum geology
noun
The branch of geology concerned with the formation, occurrence, and exploitation of oil and natural gas.
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in Bulletin of the Geological Society of America.
- polychromatic normoblast
- polychromatise
- polychromatism
- polychromatize
- polychromatophil
- polychromatophile
- polychromatophilia
- polychromatophilic
- polychrome
- polychromic
- polychromism
- polychromist
- stick in one's throat (or craw)
- stick insect
- stick-in-the-mud
- stick it to
- stickleback
- stickler
- sticklike
- stick-nest rat
- stick one (or it) on
- stick one's neck out
- stick (or poke) one's bib in
- stick out
- stick out a mile