Associations to the word «Lithology»

Wiktionary

LITHOLOGY, noun. The study of rocks, with particular emphasis on their description and classification.
LITHOLOGY, noun. The general composition of a rock or rock sequence.

Dictionary definition

LITHOLOGY, noun. The branch of geology that studies rocks: their origin and formation and mineral composition and classification.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope