Crossword-Solution: PETROLOGY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Petrology | n. | The department of science which is concerned with the mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks, and with their classification: lithology. |
| Petrology | n. | A treatise on petrology. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “PETROLOGY”
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| Study of origin, structure, and composition of rocks | 1 answer |
| study of the composition, origin, structure, and formation of rocks | 1 answer |
| ROCKS, study of | 2 answers |
| STUDY of rocks | 4 answers |
| GEOLOGY, subject of | 12 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PETROLOGY (5)
Two cabinets of stones and fossils gave evidence of his zealous travels about the British isles; he had even written a little hand-book of petrology which was for sale at certain booksellers' in Twybridge, and probably nowhere else.
The parallel between Biology and Geology, which I have drawn, is further illustrated by the modern growth of that branch of the science known as Petrology, which answers to Histology, and has made the microscope as essential an instrument to the geological as to the biological investigator.
BASALT, in petrology, one of the oldest rock names, supposed to be derived from an Ethiopian word _basal_, signifying a stone which yields iron; according to Pliny, the first basalts were obtained in Ethiopia.
The student in his preparation cannot afford to eliminate any of them on the ground that they are merely "scientific" or "academic" or "theoretical." MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY Mineralogy, the study of minerals, and petrology, the study of rocks (aggregations of minerals), are of course elementary requisites in preparation.
The scientific description of rocks; that department of science which investigates the constitution of rocks; petrology.