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Petrology   Listen
noun
Petrology  n.  
1.
The department of science which is concerned with the mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks, and with their classification: lithology.
2.
A treatise on petrology.





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"Petrology" Quotes from Famous Books



... petrology, a rock which is a weathered form of dolerite. It was long widely accepted that the pre-Tertiary rocks of this group differed from their Tertiary and Recent representatives in certain essential respects, but this is now admitted to be untenable, and the differences are known to be merely ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 - "Destructors" to "Diameter" • Various


Words linked to "Petrology" :   lithology


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