terms:basement
A complex of undifferentiated rocks that underlies the oldest sedimentary rocks. In many places the rocks of the complex are igneous and metamorphic and of Precambrian age, but in some places they are Paleozoic, Mesozoic, or even Cenozoic. In terms of petroleum exploration, basement is the surface below which there is no current exploration interest.
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