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departure curve

1. n. []

A graph that shows the effects of environmental factors on the ideal response of a measurement. The name comes from the departure of the actual response from the ideal. The term is used most commonly in relation to the effect of hole size, mud resistivity, bed thickness, invasion and other factors on electrical logs.

See related terms: bed thicknesselectrical logenvironmental corrections