086 · Wireline

A wireline log is how a borehole describes itself: a tool is lowered on a cable and fires acoustic pulses into the rock. Travel time betrays the formation — dense rock answers fast, loose sediment answers slowly — and the travel-time curve kinks at every boundary.

Stack strata with the buttons below, then fire the pulse. Each layer rings at its own velocity as the pulse crosses it; the curve on the right is the log you just cut.

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