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pe·trol·o·gy

(pə-trŏl′ə-jē)
n.
The branch of geology that deals with the origin, composition, structure, and alteration of rocks.

pet′ro·log′ic (pĕt′rə-lŏj′ĭk), pet′ro·log′i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj.
pet′ro·log′i·cal·ly adv.
pe·trol′o·gist n.
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Most people know about the sinking of the Titanic on its maiden voyage in 1912; relatively few people know that 149 of the 150 victims buried in three cemeteries in Halifax, Nova Scotia, lie under petrologically identical gabbroic headstones (Fig.
Petrologically the Khojak sandstone is meta-sedimentary litharenite (Qayyum et al., 2001) and has been derived from recycled orogen.
Petrologically, the vertebrate fossil remains from Lano are composed of well-crystallized francolite (carbonate fluorapatite).
Paleoclimatic implications of tufa were studied petrologically, hydrologically and sedimentologically (Chafetz & Guidri 1999, Riding 2002, Pedley 2009).
A further 16 samples of seven wares were later analysed petrologically, nine from the Pamua ridge and coastal sites and seven from Graciosa Bay (Dickinson & Green 1973).
Geological and Structural Features of Diamer Basha Dam Site: The prevailing rock type at Diamer Basha dam site is intrusive igneous which is petrologically called Norite, or more precisely Gabbro-Norite (GN), (NEAC, 2004).
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However, most other volcanic features in the NE Pacific are poorly understood petrologically.
(These data were obtained by measuring of 95 samples of the bituminous coals in question, differing petrologically, by coal type, elemental composition, proximate analysis parameters and coking properties.) The maximum fluidity of coal in the plastic state was ascertained to be in the wide range of 15-1920 ddpm and cumulative fluidity in the range of 107-12062 ddmp, but all the samples had almost the same softening, maximum-fluidity and re-solidification temperatures.
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