The science that deals with the study of five and fossil spores and with pollen grains and other microscopic plant structures. As palynology concerns oil prospecting, particularly stratigraphic problems, the science involves age dating rocks and determining the environment when sedimentary formations were laid down. This can be observed from well borehole cuttings, cores, and surface outcrop samples; also microscopic analysis of source rock samples and other basic geochemical studies.
