Definition of Lithology. Meaning of Lithology. Synonyms of Lithology

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Definition of Lithology

Lithology
Lithology Li*thol"o*gy, n. [Litho- + -logy: cf. F. lithologie.] 1. The science which treats of rocks, as regards their mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence in nature. 2. (Med.) A treatise on stones found in the body.

Meaning of Lithology from wikipedia

- The lithology of a rock unit is a description of its physical characteristics visible at outcrop, in hand or core samples, or with low magnification microscopy...
- is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies...
- River Formation Overlies Nepisiguit Falls Formation Thickness Unknown Lithology Primary Rhyolite flows, hyaloclastics, breccias, hyalotuffs Other Shale...
- conformable contact can be abrupt, where the contact separates beds of distinct lithology. Abrupt contacts coincide with bedding planes and represent a change in...
- correlation. A band is a thin stratum that is distinguishable by a distinctive lithology or color and is useful in correlating strata. Finally, a key bed, also...
- increasing use of chemistry. Lithology was once approximately synonymous with petrography, but in current usage, lithology focuses on macroscopic hand-sample...
- The Hajar Mountains (Arabic: جِبَال ٱلْحَجَر, romanized: Jibāl al-Ḥajar, The Rocky Mountains or The Stone Mountains) are one of the highest mountain ranges...
- The Highland Boundary Fault is a major fault zone that traverses Scotland from Arran and Helensburgh on the west coast to Stonehaven in the east. It separates...
- (thereby steepening river gradients) or in which a particularly hard lithology causes a river to have a steepened reach that has not been covered in...
- The Bishop Tuff is a welded tuff that formed 764,800 ± 600 years ago as a rhyolitic pyroclastic flow during the approximately six day eruption that formed...