Definition of Petrographic. Meaning of Petrographic. Synonyms of Petrographic

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Definition of Petrographic

Petrographic
Petrographic Pet`ro*graph"ic, Petrographical Pet`ro*graph"ic*al, a. Pertaining to petrography.

Meaning of Petrographic from wikipedia

- A petrographic microscope is a type of optical microscope used to identify rocks and minerals in thin sections. The microscope is used in optical mineralogy...
- of rocks is based on the information acquired during the petrographic analysis. Petrographic descriptions start with the field notes at the outcrop and...
- A petrographic province is a geological region within which the igneous rocks reveal a relationship (so-called consanguinity) in chemical composition,...
- section (or petrographic thin section) is a thin slice of a rock or mineral sample, prepared in a laboratory, for use with a polarizing petrographic microscope...
- A felsic volcanic lithic fragment, as seen in a petrographic microscope. Scale box is in millimeters....
- A sand grain of volcanic gl**** under the petrographic microscope. Its amorphous nature makes it disappear in cross-polarized light (bottom frame). The...
- reported finding microscopic fragments of crinoids in this limestone. Later petrographic analysis of samples of the limestone from near the summit revealed them...
- A mylonite (through a petrographic microscope)...
- analysis, petrologists analyze thin sections of rock samples using a petrographic microscope, where the minerals can be identified through their different...
- The Madagascar flood basalt, also known as the Madagascar large igneous province (LIP), is one of the major magmatic events of the Late Cretaceous. They...