petrology
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Origin of petrology
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“It's like our moonshot. It's going to transform a lot of things,” says Yan Lavallée, a professor of magmatic petrology and volcanology at the Ludwigs-Maximillian University in Munich, and who heads KMT’s science committee.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2024
“But the petrology is interesting and special regardless,” she says.
From Science Magazine ● May 25, 2023
The mining, the petrology, the archaeology — the artistically gifted, straight-F student, trying to live up to his brilliant, academic, domineering father.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
Volcanology and petrology of volcanic products from the island of Milos and neighbouring islets.
From Nature ● Dec. 12, 2017
Geology: nothing about geomorphology or stratigraphy or even petrology.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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