O is for Offset

Offset is one of those jargon words that geophysicists kick around without a second thought, but which might bewilder more geological interpreters. Like most jargon words, offset can mean a couple of different things:  Offset distance, which is usually what is meant by simply 'offset'. Offset angle, which is often what we really care about. We are not talking about offset wells, or fault offset. What is offset? Sherriff's Encyclopedic Dictionary is characteristically terse: Offset: […]