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Lithology

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The study of rocks, with particular emphasis on their description and classification. uncountable
  2. 2
    the branch of geology that studies rocks: their origin and formation and mineral composition and classification wordnet
  3. 3
    The general composition of a rock or rock sequence. countable

    "The ‘monomict’ meteorites are samples of a single lithology while the polymict meteorites are those containing two or more lithologies."

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From litho- + -ology.

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