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"This is a very plausible explanation," says Penny Wieser, a petrologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

From Science Magazine • May 27, 2024

“It's hard to explain the water budget from those sources,” says Megan E. Newcombe, a petrologist at the University of Maryland.

From Scientific American • Jul. 31, 2023

Paul Barton, 90, an ore petrologist with the U.S.

From Washington Post • May 31, 2021

Dan Morgan, a petrologist at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and an early practitioner of diffusion chronometry, shares that concern.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 17, 2016

But it happened that the "Challenger" visited most of the volcanic islands described by Darwin, and the specimens brought home were examined by the eminent petrologist Professor Renard.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)