Diary for academic communication course. Area of knowledge is geology.
argillaceous
adjective
Consisting of or containing clay.
Example: However, locally organic-rich argillaceous mudstones of the Ørret Formation, deposited below storm wave base in oxygen-poor conditions are regarded as the source rock of oil in Permian reservoirs on the Finnmark Platform and the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea.
en: Глинистый
cannel
adjective
A hard, compact kind of bituminous coal.
Example: Cannel coals with abundant alginite (Botryococcus) occur in the Sporehøgda Member (Mumien Formation), reflecting deposition in a lacustrine environment.
en: Канальный или свечной (речь об угле); сильно битуминозный
causative
adjective
Acting as a cause.
Example: However, these elevated velocities imply higher sediment compaction, but give no direct evidence on the causative mechanism.
en: причинный
constraint
noun
A limitation or restriction.
Example: For petroleum modelling the basal heat flow is an essential constraint to calculate thermal maturation.
en: Ограничение
counter-clockwise
adjective
In the opposite direction to the way in which the hands of a clock move round; anticlockwise.
Example: In this phase, the Mannar Basin opened by possible counter-clockwise rotation of Sri Lankan landmass away from greater India
en: Против часовой стрелки
draping
noun
A configuration of layers of rock that has the appearance of a fold, but might form simply through sagging or differential compaction of layers around a preexisting structure (such as a reef) or on an uneven surface.
Example: Sediments draping over basement highs could also act as a play.
en: Горные породы, которые похожи на складки, но имеют другой генезис. Аналог в русском, складки облекания.
Fan
noun
Is a triangle-shaped deposit of gravel, sand, and even smaller pieces of sediment, such as silt.
Example: The major plays and leads interpreted on seismic data are basin floor fans, mounds and roll over anticlinal structures.
en: Конус выноса
forced-fold
adjective
Folding in which the final overall shape and trend [of the fold] are dominated by the shape of some forcing member below.
Example: The growth of forced-fold structures can be directly linked to the mechanical emplacement of the intrusive.
en: Нет точного перевода. Не могу подобрать аналог в русской геологии. Структура, похожая на складку, образованная в результате неких сил (разлом, интрузия и тд), которые привели к первичной складчатости нижних слоев(?) (или внедрение интрузии, которая вызывает складчатость вторичную) и поэтому верхние слои испытали складчатость
frontier failed rift basin
phrase
Frontier failed rifts are the result of continental rifting that failed to continue to the point of break-up.
Example: The Mannar Basin is a frontier failed rift basin between India and Sri Lanka.
en: несформировавшийся рифтовый бассейн (приграничный указывает на границу между двумя тектоническими элементами, взаимодействующие друг с другом)
glaciation
noun
The process by which the land is covered by glaciers.
Example: Main reasons for the dominance of gas are the southern Barents Sea’s late Cenozoic uplift, tilting, glaciation and rapid erosion leading to dismigration of oil.
en: Оледенение
impregnation
noun
An irregular form of mineral deposit, not a true vein, but having some of the characters of one.
Example: Geochemical data on this formation are sparse and their interpretation is complicated due to high maturity, potential oil impregnation and contribution of resedimented terrigenous kerogen.
en: вкрапления
infer
verb
Deduce or conclude (something) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.
Example: Consequently, Type III source rock is inferred below the surface of the Upper Jurassic.
en: Делать вывод
intra-cratonic
adjective
Intracratonic basins are areas on the craton, at some distance from the craton margin, undergoing differential subsidence relative to the surrounding area of cratonic basement.
Example: It forms an intra-cratonic failed rift between India and Sri Lanka, and the Sri Lankan side of the Mannar Basin has an area exceeding 42,000 k m2
en: Внутрикратонный. По типу центральной части грабена - наиболее проседающая часть кратона в его центре
jacked-up
adjective
Greatly enhanced.
Example: Forced-folds are also known as jacked-up structures that are associated with igneous intrusions.
en: Сильно видозмененный
lacustrine
adjective
Of, relating to, formed in, living in, or growing in lakes lacustrine deposits lacustrine faunas.
Example: The sediment depositional environment can be interpreted as lacustrine to transitional and probably extends to the shallow marine conditions
en: Озерный, относящийся к озеру. Геол.: озерные осадки/породы
orogeny
noun
A process in which a section of the earth's crust is folded and deformed by lateral compression to form a mountain range.
Example: The seismic data in the basin show an Eocene inversion that is associated with the Himalayan orogeny
en: Ороген. Горообразование
Pinch out
phrase
A pinch-out or wedge-out is a point where a stratum or other lithologically distinct body of rock thins to a feather edge and disappears, so that the underlying and overlying strata separated by the pinching out stratum come into direct contact.
Example: The Upper Jurassic play is dominated by abrupt margin pinch outs.
en: Выклинивание
play
noun
A group of oil fields or prospects in the same region that are controlled by the same set of geological circumstances.
Example: Play analysis can be used to find undiscovered petroleum potential of an area being assessed.
en: Область, где возможно или точно находится группа месторождений, которая контролируется едиными геологическими условиями.
ploughmark
noun
A depression, in some cases many metres deep and tens of metres wide, made on the sea floor by the base of an iceberg that is driven by wind and tide.
Example: However, ploughmarks and ice-fingerprints indicate significant ice flow in the Olga Basin, which likely involved also erosion.
en: воронка/депрессия/прогиб созданный на дне моря подошвой айсберга, который двигается за счет волн и ветра
quiescence
noun
Inactivity or dormancy.
Example: During the Triassic, the Barents Sea was characterized by tectonic quiescence and an overall regression during which an enormous shelf- margin system sourced from the young and active Uralian Mountains in the southeast and Novaya Zemlya in the east prograded towards Svalbard.
en: В геологии, тектоническая стабильность, затухание тектонической активности
sagging
noun
sinking or bulging downwards under weight or pressure or through lack of strength
Example: The post-rift stage of the Mannar Basin dates from Early Cretaceous times (134 Ma), during which the basin underwent thermal sagging similar to a passive margin
en: прогибание в геологии (провисание)
sonobuoy
noun
A buoy equipped to detect underwater sounds and transmit them by radio.
Example: An alternative explanation for the elevated sonobuoy velocities of the Cretaceous sediments may be an additional compaction caused by the presence of grounded ice sheets that repeatedly covered the Barents Sea from Pliocene times on (Elver-
hoi and Solheim, 1983, 1987).
en: гидроакустический буй
sparse
adjective
Thinly dispersed or scattered.
Example: Geochemical data on this formation are sparse and their interpretation is complicated due to high maturity, potential oil impregnation and contribution of resedimented terrigenous kerogen.
en: Редкий (имеется ввиду об области исследований, разбросанные и далеко находящиеся по своим значениям друг от друга)
strike-slip
noun
Strike-slip faults are vertical (or nearly vertical) fractures where the blocks have mostly moved horizontally.
Example: The large extent of rift- ing together with strike-slip movement and more counter- clockwise rotation caused a significant widening and rapid subsidence of the basin.
en: Горизонтальный сдвиг
subsidence
noun
The gradual caving in or sinking of an area of land.
Example: The large extent of rift- ing together with strike-slip movement and more counter- clockwise rotation caused a significant widening and rapid subsidence of the basin.
en: Опускание. Прогиб
tectonostratigraphic
adjective
Relating to the correlation of rock formations with each other in terms of their connection with a tectonic event.
Example: The tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Mannar Basin (Fig. 4) can be distinguished broadly as pre-rift, rift and post-rift (Allen and Allen 2005)
en: Тектоностратиграфический
Tertiary
adjective
Relating to or denoting the first period of the Cenozoic era, between the Cretaceous and Quaternary periods, and comprising the Paleogene and Neogene subperiods.
Example: Tertiary play level is dominated by submarine fans, mounds and rollover anticline like structures.
en: Третичный
tilting
noun
Tectonic tilting, occurs when the earth's surface layers begin to tilt or slant irregularly.
Example: Main reasons for the dominance of gas are the southern Barents Sea’s late Cenozoic uplift, tilting, glaciation and rapid erosion leading to dismigration of oil.
en: опрокидывние пластов
trough
noun
A trough is a linear structural depression that extends laterally over a distance.
Example: Massive trough mouth fans along the western and northern Barents margin give evidence for the extensive erosion.
en: Узкая протяженная синклиналь в складчатых областях
wedges
noun
A wedge- or prism-shaped mass of sediments and rock fragments which has accumulated where a downgoing oceanic plate meets an overriding plate (either oceanic or continental) at a subduction zone.
Example: In the earliest Cretaceous sedimentation of shales continued, but changed into coarser grained wedges.
