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Petrography is a
branch of
petrology that
focuses on
detailed descriptions of rocks.
Someone who
studies petrography is
called a petrographer. The mineral...
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Ceramic petrography (or
ceramic petrology) is a laboratory-based
scientific archaeological technique that
examines the
mineralogical and microstructural...
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synonymous with
petrography, but in
current usage,
lithology focuses on
macroscopic hand-sample or outcrop-scale
description of
rocks while petrography is the...
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Bargate stone is a
highly durable form of sandstone. It owes its yellow,
butter or
honey colouring to a high iron content. In some
contexts it may be considered...
- Ra****vi
granite is an
igneous intrusive rock and
variant of
alkali feldspar granite. It is
characterized by large,
rounded crystals of
orthoclase each...
- The Lava Cr**** Tuff is a
voluminous sheet of ash-flow tuff
located in Wyoming,
Montana and Idaho,
United States. It was
created during the Lava Cr**** eruption...
- "Mineralogisch-Petrographische Abteilung" (Department of Mineralogy-
Petrography) was
under the
directorship of
Aristides Brezina. In 1889, the museum...
- 2011. Clague,
David A.; Dalrymple, G. Brent; Moberly,
Ralph (1975). "
Petrography and K-Ar Ages of
Dredged Volcanic Rocks from the
Western Hawaiian Ridge...
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spectrographic analysis techniques. In England, he was one of the
pioneers in
petrography; he was
awarded the
Wollaston medal by the
Geological Society of London...
- The
tholeiitic magma series (/ˌθoʊliˈaɪtɪk/) is one of two main
magma series in
subalkaline igneous rocks, the
other being the calc-alkaline series. A...
