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lithol

lithol is the abbreviation of lithology.

Meaning of lithology

Noun

lithology (countable and uncountable, plural lithologies)

  1. (uncountable) The study of rocks, with particular emphasis on their description and classification.
  2. (countable) The general composition of a rock or rock sequence.
    • The ‘monomict’ meteorites are samples of a single lithology while the polymict meteorites are those containing two or more lithologies.1983, Jeremy S. Delaney et al., “The Nomenclature of Polymict Basaltic Achondrites”, in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, volume 18, number 2, →DOI

Questions about lithol

What is lithol the abbreviation of?
Lithol is the abbreviation of lithology.

Words near lithol in the dictionary

  1. lithoidal
  2. lithoing
  3. lithokelyphopedia
  4. lithokelyphopedion
  5. lithokelyphos
  6. lithol
  7. litholabe
  8. litholabes
  9. litholapaxies
  10. litholapaxy
  11. litholater

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