Category:Petrology

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Petrology is the science of rocks: their mineralogy, textures, chemistry, classification, and structures.

The main article for this category is Petrology.

Subcategories

This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.

B

• ► Breccias‎ (1 C, 6 P)

I

• ► Igneous petrology‎ (4 C, 77 P)

M

• ► Metamorphic petrology‎ (1 C, 36 P)
• ► Mineralogy‎ (4 C, 131 P)

P

• ► Petrologists‎ (17 P)

Μ

• ► Petrology stubs‎ (1 C, 230 P)

Pages in category "Petrology"

The following 141 pages are in this category, out of 141 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).

Petrology A Alginite Andesite line Anthraconite Argillic alteration B Bedrock Benmoreite Biolith Breccia C Cataclastic rock Cathedral Peak Granodiorite Cementation (geology) Chert Cleavage (geology) Concretion Core sample Country rock (geology) Cryptocrystalline Cumberlandite Cutinite D Dreikanter Dunham classification E Elements: An International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology Eolith Equigranular Euhedral and anhedral F Fen Complex, Norway Ferropericlase Fiamme Fluid inclusions Flux melting Folk classification Formation of rocks Franciscan Assemblage G Gazzi-Dickinson Method Geode Ostwald–Freundlich equation Glaciated Rocks Goldich dissolution series Greenstone belt I Inliers and outliers (geology) Interbedding Interference colour chart K Klinkenberg correction L Laccolith Lamalginite Lapilli

L cont. Large igneous province Law of included fragments Lens (geology) Liptinite List of rock textures List of sandstones Lithic fragment (geology) Lithology Lithophysa Lopolith M Maceral Macrocrystalline Matrix (geology) Matrix-supported rock Megacryst Mélange Melanosome (geology) Merensky Reef Template:Metamorphic facies to click Miarolitic cavity Mica fish Microcrystalline Migmatite Mineral redox buffer Mineralogy Minipermeameter Moon rock Mud volcano Myrmekite N NiFe Nodule (geology) O Oldest dated rocks Ooid Oolite P Paragenesis Parent rock Partial melting Perthite Petrogenesis Petrography Petrological Database of the Ocean Floor Phaneritic Phenocryst Poikilitic Poikiloblast Polybaric melting Post-perovskite

P cont. Pounamu Pressure solution Protolith Pseudotachylite Pyroclastic rock Pyrolite Q QFL diagram R Restite Rock (geology) Rock cycle Rock fragment Rock microstructure List of rock types S Sediment Sedimentary rock Sial Sima (geology) Soapstone Solvus Sovite Sphericity scale Spherulite Sporinite Stockwork Stolen and missing moon rocks Stone ball Stratigraphy Stylolite Supersequence Symplectite T Tecoatl Tectonic phase Telalginite Tessellated pavement Texture (geology) Thin section Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite Torlesse Greywacke Trace element V Ventifact Verdete Volatiles Vug W Whiteschist X Xenolith Xenomorph (geology) Z ZTR index

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