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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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synonymous with
petrography, but in
current usage,
lithology focuses on
macroscopic hand-sample or outcrop-scale
description of
rocks while petrography is the...
- The Lava Cr**** Tuff is a
voluminous sheet of ash-flow tuff
located in Wyoming,
Montana and Idaho,
United States. It was
created during the Lava Cr**** eruption...
- The
tholeiitic magma series (/ˌθoʊliˈaɪtɪk/) is one of two main
magma series in
subalkaline igneous rocks, the
other being the calc-alkaline series. A...
- Ra****vi
granite is a hornblende-biotite
granite containing large round crystals of
orthoclase each with a rim of
oligoclase (a
variety of plagioclase)...
- "Mineralogisch-Petrographische Abteilung" (Department of Mineralogy-
Petrography) was
under the
directorship of
Aristides Brezina. In 1889, the museum...
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William Nicol FRSE FCS (1768? – 2
September 1851) was a
Scottish geologist and
physicist who
invented the
Nicol prism, the
first device for
obtaining plane-polarized...
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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...
- 2011. Clague,
David A.; Dalrymple, G. Brent; Moberly,
Ralph (1975). "
Petrography and K-Ar Ages of
Dredged Volcanic Rocks from the
Western Hawaiian Ridge...
