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Definition of Petrographical
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Petrographical
1. Pertaining to petrography. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petrographical
Literary usage of Petrographical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1889)
"Three American firms now advertise petrographical microscopes made in ...
There began with this to be a demand for American-made petrographical microscopes. ..."
2. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"None is very high in alkalies.1 petrographical PROVINCES IN SOUTH AMERICA With
the meager information at hand regarding the greater part of the igneous ..."
3. The Founders of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1905)
"I TURN now to the petrographical department of geological inquiry, as exhibiting
the last great forward stride which the science has taken. ..."
4. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1922)
"This instrument is patterned after one described by 562 petrographical
Microscope (Laboratory Model, Bausch and 663 (Research Model, ..."
5. I. The Anorthosytes of the Minnesota Coast of Lake Superior: II. The by Andrew Cowper Lawson (1893)
"Following the petrographical notes, will be given a brief account of the ...
Irving's description:—Irving's summary statement of the petrographical ..."
6. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"... petrographical Microscope.—Special Microscopes for the examination of minerals
and rocks are now supplied by nearly every optician. ..."
7. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"Plutonic or Abyssal and Hypabyssal Rocks —their General petrographical Characters.
Batholiths—Granite as a type ; phenomena along line of Junction with ..."
8. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1910)
"Plutonic or Abyssal and Hypabyssal Rocks —their General petrographical Characters.
Batholiths—Granite as a type ; phenomena along line of Junction with ..."
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