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lithologies

lithologies is the plural 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 lithologies

What is lithologies the plural of?
Lithologies is the plural of lithology.

Words near lithologies in the dictionary

  1. litholatrous
  2. litholatry
  3. lithologic
  4. lithological
  5. lithologically
  6. lithologies
  7. lithologist
  8. lithologists
  9. lithology
  10. litholopaxies
  11. litholopaxy

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