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Data-set formats are aligned with other geochemical, petrological and geochronological data.

From Nature • Jun. 3, 2019

This is independent of the oxidation state or petrological type of the chondrites.

From Nature • Nov. 28, 2017

Her father was distinctly irascible, and disposed more than ever to hide away among the petrological things—the study was turned out.

From Ann Veronica, a modern love story by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

It is a rock of peculiar interest from the fact that it is almost unique in the British Islands, and has its petrological counterpart rather amongst the volcanic hills of the Siebengebirge than elsewhere.

From Volcanoes: Past and Present by Hull, Edward

Of the variety of problems that it presents one might mention the petrological questions connected with the intrusion of the great masses of granite, and their relation to the slates and associated metamorphic rocks.

From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir