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Webster 1913 Edition
Petrology
Pe-trol′o-gy
,Noun.
[
Petro
+ -logy
.] 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.
Definition 2024
petrology
petrology
English
Noun
petrology (usually uncountable, plural petrologies)
- (geology) the study of the origin, composition and structure of rock
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Translations
the study of rock
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