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petrology


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Petrology  \Pe*trol"o*gy\,  n.  [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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  petrology 
  n  :  the  branch  of  geology  that  studies  rocks:  their  origin  and 
  formation  and  composition 




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