petroleum geology

1. 1.

   the branch of economic geology that deals with the occurrence and exploitation of oil and gas fields

   Broadereconomic geology

Questions about petroleum geology

What does petroleum geology mean?

petroleum geology means "the branch of economic geology that deals with the occurrence and exploitation of oil and gas fields".

Is petroleum geology a common word?

petroleum geology is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.