Lithology

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The gross physical character of a rock or rock formation.
  • n. The microscopic study, description, and classification of rock.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The study of rocks, with particular emphasis on their description and classification.
  • n. The general composition of a rock or rock sequence.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The science which treats of rocks, as regards their mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence in nature.
  • n. A treatise on stones found in the body.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A branch of mineralogy concerned with the minute study of rocks, with the object of finding out what minerals make up the different varieties.
  • n. That department of medical science which is concerned with the study and treatment of calculi found in the human body.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the branch of geology that studies rocks: their origin and formation and mineral composition and classification
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    morphology    geomorphology   
     
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