Category:Petrology
Here is a list of articles in the Petrology category of the Earth portal. Petrology is the science of rocks: their mineralogy, textures, chemistry, classification, and structures.
Subcategories
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
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Pages in category "Petrology"
The following 158 pages are in this category, out of 158 total.
- Petrology (earth)
A
- Acidic rock (earth)
- Aggregate (geology) (earth)
- Alginite (earth)
- Andesite line (earth)
- Apollo 11 lunar sample display (astronomy)
- Apollo 17 lunar sample display (astronomy)
- Argillic alteration (earth)
- Automicrite (earth)
B
- Basalt (earth)
- Bedrock (earth)
- Benmoreite (earth)
- Biolith (earth)
- Bituminite (earth)
C
- California lunar sample displays (astronomy)
- Cataclastic rock (earth)
- Cementation (geology) (earth)
- Cleavage (geology) (earth)
- Concretion (earth)
- Core sample (earth)
- Country rock (geology) (earth)
- Cryptocrystalline (earth)
- Cutinite (earth)
D
- Dreikanter (earth)
- Dunham classification (earth)
E
- Eclogitization (earth)
- Eolith (earth)
- Equigranular (earth)
- Euhedral and anhedral (physics)
- Experimental petrology (earth)
F
- Fabric (geology) (earth)
- Fahlband (earth)
- Fen Complex (earth)
- Ferropericlase (earth)
- Fiamme (earth)
- Fluid inclusion (chemistry)
- Flux melting (earth)
- Formation of rocks (earth)
- Franciscan Assemblage (earth)
- Franciscan Complex (earth)
G
- Gazzi-Dickinson method (earth)
- Geode (earth)
- Glaciated rock (earth)
- Goldich dissolution series (earth)
- Greenstone belt (earth)
H
- Heavy mineral (earth)
- Heavy mineral analysis (earth)
I
- Inclusion (mineral) (earth)
- Inliers and outliers (geology) (earth)
- Interbedding (earth)
- Interference colour chart (earth)
- Iron–nickel alloy (astronomy)
- Isograd (earth)
K
- K-U ratio (astronomy)
- Kerogen (earth)
- Klinkenberg correction (earth)
L
- Laccolith (earth)
- Lamalginite (earth)
- Lapilli (earth)
- Large igneous province (earth)
- Law of included fragments (earth)
- Lens (geology) (earth)
- Liptinite (earth)
- List of rock textures (earth)
- Lithic fragment (geology) (earth)
- Lithification (earth)
- Lithology (earth)
- Lithophysa (earth)
- Lithostratigraphy (earth)
- Lopolith (earth)
- Lunar basalt 70017 (astronomy)
- Lunar sample displays (astronomy)
M
- Maceral (earth)
- Macrocrystalline (earth)
- Matrix (geology) (earth)
- Matrix-supported rock (earth)
- Megacryst (earth)
- Mélange (earth)
- Melanosome (geology) (earth)
- Miarolitic cavity (earth)
- Microbialite (earth)
- Microcracks in rock (earth)
- Microcrystalline (earth)
- Migmatite (earth)
- Mineral redox buffer (chemistry)
- Minipermeameter (earth)
- Moon rock (astronomy)
- Mud volcano (earth)
- Myrmekite (earth)
N
- Nodule (geology) (earth)
O
- Oldest dated rocks (physics)
- Ooid (earth)
- Oolite (earth)
- Coast Range Ophiolite (earth)
- Ostwald–Freundlich equation (physics)
P
- Paragenesis (earth)
- Parent rock (earth)
- Perthite (earth)
- Petrogenesis (earth)
- Petrogenetic grid (earth)
- Petrographic province (earth)
- Petrography (earth)
- Petrological Database of the Ocean Floor (earth)
- Phanerite (earth)
- Phenocryst (earth)
- Poikilitic (earth)
- Poikiloblast (earth)
- Polarized light microscopy (physics)
- Polybaric melting (earth)
- Post-perovskite (earth)
- Pounamu (earth)
- Pressure solution (earth)
- Protolith (earth)
- Pseudotachylite (astronomy)
- Pseudotachylyte (astronomy)
- Pyroclastic rock (earth)
- Pyrolite (computing)
Q
- QFL diagram (earth)
R
- Refractory (planetary science) (astronomy)
- Restite (earth)
- Rock (geology) (earth)
- Rock cycle (earth)
- Rock fragment (earth)
- Rock mechanics (earth)
- Rock microstructure (earth)
- List of rock types (earth)
- Rosemarie and Dietrich Klemm Collection (earth)
S
- Sediment (earth)
- Sedimentary rock (earth)
- Sial (earth)
- Silicate perovskite (earth)
- Sima (geology) (earth)
- Soapstone (earth)
- Solvus (chemistry)
- Sovite (earth)
- Spherulite (earth)
- Sporinite (earth)
- Stockwork (earth)
- Stolen and missing Moon rocks (astronomy)
- Stone ball (earth)
- Stone ball (disambiguation) (earth)
- Stratigraphy (earth)
- Stylolite (earth)
- Symplectite (physics)
T
- Tecoatl (earth)
- Tectonic phase (earth)
- Telalginite (earth)
- Tessellated pavement (earth)
- Texture (geology) (earth)
- Thin section (earth)
- Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite (earth)
- Trace element (biology)
X
- Xenolith (earth)
- Xenomorph (geology) (earth)
Z
- ZTR index (earth)