2. A treatise or book on this science. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
meteorite — meteoritic /mee tee euh rit ik/, meteoritical, meteorital /mee tee euh ruyt l/, adj. /mee tee euh ruyt /, n. 1. a mass of stone or metal that has reached the earth from outer space; a fallen meteoroid. 2. a meteoroid. [1815 25; METEOR + ITE1] * * … Universalium
Mineralogy — Min er*al o*gy, n.; pl. {Mineralogies}. [Mineral + logy: cf. F. min[ e]ralogie.] [1913 Webster] 1. The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them. [1913 Webster] 2. A treatise or book on this… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Achondrite — An achondrite is a stony meteorite that consists of material similar to terrestrial basalts or plutonic rocks. Compared to the chondrites, they have all been differentiated and reprocessed to a lesser or greater degree due to melting and… … Wikipedia
Lamprophyre — Lamprophyres (Greek λαµπρός (lamprós) = bright and φύρω (phýro) = to mix) are uncommon, small volume ultrapotassic igneous rocks primarily occurring as dikes, lopoliths, laccoliths, stocks and small intrusions. They are alkaline silica… … Wikipedia
Michael James Gaffey — is a planetary scientist who specializes in deriving the mineralogies of asteroids from their reflectance spectra. He received his bachelors and masters degrees in geology from the University of Iowa and his PhD from MIT in planetary science… … Wikipedia
Carbonate hosted lead zinc ore deposits — World wide distribution of MVT deposits, (red), clastic sediment hosted (green), and unclassified (blue) lead zinc deposits. Source: USGS Carbonate hosted lead zinc ore deposits are important and highly valuable concentrations of lead and zinc… … Wikipedia
graywacke — /gray wak , wak euh/, n. Geol. a dark gray coarse grained wacke. Also, greywacke. [1805 15; partly trans., partly adapted from G Grauwache; see WACKE] * * * or dirty sandstone Sedimentary rock composed of sand sized grains in a fine grained clay… … Universalium
wacke — /wak euh/, n. a poorly sorted sandstone containing fragments of rock and minerals in a clayey matrix. Cf. graywacke. [1795 1805; < G: a kind of stone] * * * ▪ sandstone also called dirty sandstone sedimentary rock composed of sand sized… … Universalium
mineralogy — [min΄ər äl′ə jē, min΄əral′ə jē] n. [< MINERAL + LOGY] 1. the scientific study of minerals 2. pl. mineralogies a book about minerals mineralogical [min΄ər əl äj′i kəl] adj. mineralogically adv. mineralogist n … English World dictionary
