petrological
- a word derived from petrology.
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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
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
Of course in these days, since the application of the microscope to the study of rocks in thin sections, Darwin's nomenclature and descriptions of the petrological characters of the lavas appear to us somewhat crude.
From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
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
