lithology

English

Etymology

From litho- ‎ -ology.

Noun

lithology (countable and uncountable, plural lithologies)

1. (uncountable) The study of rocks, with particular emphasis on their description and classification.
2. (countable) The general composition of a rock or rock sequence.
   • 1983, Jeremy S. Delaney et al., “The Nomenclature of Polymict Basaltic Achondrites”, in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, volume 18, number 2, →DOI:

     The ‘monomict’ meteorites are samples of a single lithology while the polymict meteorites are those containing two or more lithologies.

Derived terms

• astrolithology
• lithologic
• lithological
• lithologically
• lithologist
• phytolithology

 

Translations

the study of rocks

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 岩石学 (zh) (yánshíxué)

• Czech: litologie f
• Finnish: litologia
• French: lithologie (fr) f
• Hindi: आश्मिकी (āśmikī)
• Irish: liteolaíocht f
• Italian: litologia (it) f
• Spanish: litología f