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chemical analysis to
describe the
composition and
texture of rocks.
Petrologists also
include the
principles of
geochemistry and
geophysics through the...
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Igneous petrology is the
study of
igneous rocks—those that are
formed from magma. As a
branch of geology,
igneous petrology is
closely related to volcanology...
- Otto Hahn (1828 – 1904) was a
German petrologist, geologist,
lawyer and author. His
father was
Johann Franz Gottlieb Hahn (1789 – 1844). His great-grandfather...
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their motion In
addition to
identifying rocks in the
field (lithology),
petrologists identify rock
samples in the laboratory. Two of the
primary methods for...
- iron, sodium, and pot****ium and
minor amounts of many
other elements.
Petrologists routinely express the
composition of a
silicate lava in
terms of the...
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produced in
explosive volcanic eruptions.[citation needed] Most
modern petrologists classify igneous rocks,
including volcanic rocks, by
their chemistry...
- metamorphism.
Metamorphic petrology is the
study of metamorphism.
Metamorphic petrologists rely
heavily on
statistical mechanics and
experimental petrology to understand...
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Tschetschulin (1859–1942),
composer and
violinist Jakob Sederholm (1863–1934),
petrologist Karl
Fazer (1866–1932), baker, confectioner, chocolatier, entrepreneur...
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volcanic materials that make up the
solid Earth are
referred to as
igneous petrologists. The word
volcanologist (or vulcanologist) is
derived from the English...
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geological age and
occurrence of the rocks. However, in 1902, the
American petrologists Charles Whitman Cross,
Joseph P. Iddings,
Louis V. Pirsson, and Henry...
