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Vinony

lithology

noun

  1. science of rocks
  2. the character of a rock formation
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From litho- + -ology.

  1. The study of rocks, with particular emphasis on their description and classification.
  2. 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.”