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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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Descriptive Petrography of the
Igneous Rocks:
Volume III, The
Intermediate Rocks. University...
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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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Mason Gully is an
ordinary chondrite of
subclass H5, and is the
second meteorite to be
recovered using the
Desert Fireball Network (DFN)
camera observatory...
- Nile silt or Nile mud is a
ceramic paste emplo****
widely within Ancient Egyptian pottery manufacture,
sourced from
local Quaternary Nile sediments. Nile...
- Elbe
Sandstone (German: Elbsandstein)
describes sandstones that
naturally occur in
North Bohemia and
those parts of
Saxony within the area
around Dresden...
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Dolerite can
exhibit co****-grained texture, and show a
large diversity in
petrography and
geochemistry across the
width of the sill. The vast
areas of mafic...
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Bunburra Rockhole is an
anomalous basaltic achondritic meteorite.
Originally classified as a eucrite, it was
thought to
belong to a
group of meteorites...
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minerals in thin sections. The
microscope is used in
optical mineralogy and
petrography, a
branch of
petrology which focuses on
detailed descriptions of rocks...
