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Glossary:3C

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Three component:

An adjective used to describe seismic data acquired with three orthogonal sensors at each receiver station. These sensors measure Earth movement as a vector quantity in x, y, z coordinate space.

Also:

Proved, probable and possible contingent resources.

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