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Petrology Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -ology

Petrology has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

the branch of geology that studies rocks: their origin and formation and mineral composition and classification

2

The study of the origin, composition and structure of rock.

See Also
petrologist mineralogy petrography origin petrogenesis composition rock petrologic
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
morphology
Rhyming Words
dogy fogy bogy logy pogy ology loogy elogy boogy alogy agogy dilogy oölogy oology eulogy perogy urology geology analogy trilogy
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