Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is skilled in petrology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is versed in petrology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
geologist who specializes inpetrology
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Examples
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Chatting to others in her office I found that one off them was ex-Birkbeck and the other informed me that the igneous petrologist might indeed now be interested in my project as she has become obsessed with meteoritics - this is useful info.
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Chatting to others in her office I found that one off them was ex-Birkbeck and the other informed me that the igneous petrologist might indeed now be interested in my project as she has become obsessed with meteoritics - this is useful info.
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"You could give this to any petrologist or geologist or astronomer on earth, they would run tests, and they would tell you two things: one, it is 190 million years old; and two, it is chemically dissimilar from the kind of rock we have here on earth."
Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001
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"I'm not a chemical petrologist, but as I understand it, there are numerous chemical differences between the rock Pollock found and actual meteorites."
Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001
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“You could give this to any petrologist or geologist or astronomer on earth, they would run tests, and they would tell you two things: one, it is 190 million years old; and two, it is chemically dissimilar from the kind of rock we have here on earth.”
Deception Point Dan Brown 2001
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Although I'm no expert, I think this is limestone, and the petrologist said we're looking for limestone.
Cold Case White, Stephen, 1951- 2000
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Although I'm no expert, I think this is limestone, and the petrologist said we're looking for limestone.
Cold Case White, Stephen, 1951- 2000
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Although I'm no expert, I think this is limestone, and the petrologist said we're looking for limestone.
Cold Case White, Stephen, 1951- 2000
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Palaeozoic rocks of Brittany and of northern Spain; and on the granitic and metamorphic rocks of Brittany, Dr Barrois has proved himself an accomplished petrologist as well as palaeontologist and field-geologist.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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Farfa; Marianus Victorius (1572, for a few days), a distinguished writer and petrologist; Giorgio Bolognetti (1639), restored the episcopal palace and was distinguished for his charity; Gabrielle
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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