- Industry: Mining
- Number of terms: 33118
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States Government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.
Founded on May 16, 1910, through the Organic Act (Public Law 179), USBM's missions ...
The branch of geology that deals with the form, arrangement, and internal structure of the rocks, and esp. with the description, representation, and analysis of structures, chiefly on a moderate to small scale. The subject is similar to tectonics, but the latter is generally used for the broader regional or historical phases.
Industry:Mining
The branch of geology that pertains to the distribution, position, and form of the areas of the Earth's surface occupied by different types of rock or by different geologic units, and to the making of geologic maps.
Industry:Mining
The branch of physics that deals with the mechanical properties of gases, such as their pressure, elasticity, density, and also of pneumatic mechanisms; sometimes it includes acoustics.
Industry:Mining
The branch of physics that treats of the phenomena caused by the action of forces on material bodies. It is subdivided into statics, dynamics, or kinetics; or into the mechanics of rigid bodies and hydromechanics (including hydrostatics and hydrodynamics).
Industry:Mining
The branch of science that treats of climatological conditions during the history of the Earth.
Industry:Mining
The break or crack that separates a block of stone from a quarry floor.
Industry:Mining
The breakage of a solid material under load when being permanently deformed.
Industry:Mining
The breaking and clearing of the coal left adhering to the floor by a longwall coal cutter.
Industry:Mining
