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There is a lithologic laboratory in the Survey, with a large corps of lithologists engaged in the microscopic study of rocks.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various

The Rocky mountains owe their name "to great and widely spread aridity," the mountains being "scantily clothed with vegetation and the indurated lithologic formations rarely masked with soils."

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various