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Petrology

In geology, petrology is the study of Rock s, and the conditions in which they form. Lithology once was approximately synonymous with petrography, but in current usage, lithology is a subdivision of petrology focusing on macroscopic hand-sample or outcrop-scale description of rocks, while petrography is the speciality that deals with m...
 rock types, see: List of rock types

Belgium

Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
 

• Limestone
  Limestone
  
  File:Limestone Formation In Waitomo.jpgLimestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite . The deposition of limestone strata is often a by-product and indicator of biological activity in the geology record....
  

Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 

• Anorthosite
  Anorthosite
  
  Anorthosite is a phaneritic, intrusive igneous rock characterized by a predominance of plagioclase feldspar , and a minimal mafic component . Pyroxene, ilmenite, magnetite, and olivine are the mafic minerals most commonly present....
  

• Charnockite
  Charnockite
  
  Charnockite is applied to any orthopyroxene-bearing granite, composed mainly of quartz, perthite or antiperthite and orthopyroxene , as an end-member of the charnockite series ....
  

• Diabase
  Diabase
  
  Diabase or Dolerite is a mafic, holocrystalline, intrusion igneous rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or intrusion gabbro. In North American usage the term diabase refers to the fresh rock, whilst elsewhere the term dolerite is used for the fresh rock and diabase refers to altered material.....
  

• Diorite
  Diorite
  
  Diorite is a grey to dark grey intermediate Intrusion igneous rock composed principally of plagioclase feldspar , biotite, hornblende, and/or pyroxene....
  

• Granite
  Granite
  
  Granite is a common and widely occurring type of Intrusion , felsic, igneous rock rock . Granite has a medium to coarse texture, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the groundmass forming a rock known as Porphyry ....
  

• Gabbro
  Gabbro
  
  Gabbro refers to a large group of dark, coarse-grained, intrusive igneous rock chemically equivalent to basalt. The rocks are Intrusive, formed when molten magma is trapped beneath the Earth's surface and cools into a crystalline mass....
  

• Gneiss
  Gneiss
  
  Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of Rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic rock processes from pre-existing formations that were originally either igneous rock or Sedimentary rock rocks....
  

• Limestone
  Limestone
  
  File:Limestone Formation In Waitomo.jpgLimestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite . The deposition of limestone strata is often a by-product and indicator of biological activity in the geology record....
  

• Marble
  Marble
  
  Marble is a nonfoliated metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone, composed mostly of calcite . It is extensively used for Marble sculpture, as a architecture material, and in many other applications....
  

• Monzonite
  Monzonite
  
  Monzonite is an intermediate igneous intrusive rock composed of approximately equal amounts of sodic to intermediate plagioclase and orthoclase feldspars with minor amounts of hornblende, biotite and other minerals....
  

• Sandstone
  Sandstone
  
  Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock Particle size . Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust ....
  

• Slate
  Slate
  
  Slate is a fine-grained, foliation , homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcano ash through low grade regional metamorphism....
  

• Steatite (Soapstone)

• Stromatolites

• Syenite
  Syenite
  
  Syenite is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock of the same general composition as granite but with the quartz either absent or present in relatively small amounts ....
  

France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 

• Limestone
• Caen stone
  Caen stone
  
  Caen stone or Pierre de Caen, is a light creamy-yellow Jurassic limestone quarried in northwestern France near the city of Caen.It was used in the construction of the late eleventh century austere Norman Romanesque Church of Saint-?tienne, at the Abbaye-aux-Hommes , that was founded by William the Conqueror....
  
• Pierre de Comblanchien
  Comblanchien
  
  Comblanchien is a commune in France just to the south of Nuits-Saint-Georges in the C?te-d'Or Departments of France in eastern France....
   see also Côte d'Or (escarpment)
  Côte d'Or (escarpment)
  
  The C?te d'Or is a limestone escarpment in Burgundy , France that lends its name to the C?te-d'Or which was formed around it. It stretches from Dijon in the north to the river Dheune to the south, overlooking the valley of the Sa?ne to the east....
  
• Pierre d'Euville
• Pierre de Jaumont
  Pierre de Jaumont
  
  The Pierre de Jaumont is an Oolite limestone of the Upper Jurassic, found in Malancourt-la-Montagne, part of the commune in France of Montois-la-Montagne, in Lorraine , France....
  
• Tuffeau stone
  Tuffeau stone
  
  Tuffeau is a marine sedimentary rock , found in the Loire Valley of France.The Loire Valley formed the floor of a vast sea 90 million years ago....
  

Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 

• Marble
  Marble
  
  Marble is a nonfoliated metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone, composed mostly of calcite . It is extensively used for Marble sculpture, as a architecture material, and in many other applications....
  
• Verde Antico

India

India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 

See Stones of India

Stones of India

India possesses a wide spectrum of dimensional stones that include granite, marble, sandstone, limestone, slate, and quartzite, spread out all over the country....

• Marble
  Marble
  
  Marble is a nonfoliated metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone, composed mostly of calcite . It is extensively used for Marble sculpture, as a architecture material, and in many other applications....
  
• Granite
  Granite
  
  Granite is a common and widely occurring type of Intrusion , felsic, igneous rock rock . Granite has a medium to coarse texture, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the groundmass forming a rock known as Porphyry ....
  
• Sandstone
  Sandstone
  
  Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock Particle size . Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust ....
  
• Slate
  Slate
  
  Slate is a fine-grained, foliation , homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcano ash through low grade regional metamorphism....
  
• Flaggy Limestone

Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
 

See Iran Stones

• Marble
  Marble
  
  Marble is a nonfoliated metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone, composed mostly of calcite . It is extensively used for Marble sculpture, as a architecture material, and in many other applications....
  
• Travertine
  Travertine
  
  Travertine is a sedimentary rock. It is a natural chemical precipitation of carbonate minerals; typically aragonite, but often recrystallized to, or primarily, calcite....
  
• Onyx
  Onyx
  
  Onyx is a cryptocrystalline form of quartz. The colors of its bands range from white to almost every color . Commonly, specimens of onyx available contain bands of colors of white, tan, and brown....
  
• Limestone
  Limestone
  
  File:Limestone Formation In Waitomo.jpgLimestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite . The deposition of limestone strata is often a by-product and indicator of biological activity in the geology record....
  

Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 

• Limestone
  Limestone
  
  File:Limestone Formation In Waitomo.jpgLimestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite . The deposition of limestone strata is often a by-product and indicator of biological activity in the geology record....
  /Dolomite
  Dolomite
  
  Dolomite is the name of a sedimentary carbonate rock and a mineral, both composed of calcium magnesium carbonate calciummagnesium2 found in crystals....
  
• Jerusalem stone
  Jerusalem stone
  
  Jerusalem stone is a name applied to various types of pale limestone, dolomite and dolomitic limestone, common in and around Jerusalem, Israel, that have been used in building since ancient times....
  

Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....

• Sandstone
  Sandstone
  
  Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock Particle size . Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust ....
  
• Heron
  Heron
  
  The herons are wading birds in the Ardeidae family. Some are called egrets or bitterns instead of herons.Within the family, all members of the genera Botaurus and Ixobrychus are referred to as bitterns, and - including the Zigzag Heron or Zigzag Bittern - are a monophyletic group within the Ardeidae....
  
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Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 

• Portoro Buono
  Portoro Buono
  
  Porto Buono is a decorative Rock from Porto Venere, near Spezia, Liguria, Italy. A cretaceous golden veined black marble....
  
• Carrara marble
  Marble
  
  Marble is a nonfoliated metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone, composed mostly of calcite . It is extensively used for Marble sculpture, as a architecture material, and in many other applications....
  
• Travertine
  Travertine
  
  Travertine is a sedimentary rock. It is a natural chemical precipitation of carbonate minerals; typically aragonite, but often recrystallized to, or primarily, calcite....
  

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 

• Chalk
  Chalk
  
  Chalk is a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. It forms under relatively deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minute calcite plates shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores....
  
• Clunch
  Clunch
  
  Clunch is a traditional building material used mainly in eastern England and Normandy. It is a term which encompasses a wide variety of materials, often locally variable....
  
• Flint
  Flint
  
  Flint is a hard, sedimentary rock cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert. It occurs chiefly as Nodule s and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones....
  
• Granite
  Granite
  
  Granite is a common and widely occurring type of Intrusion , felsic, igneous rock rock . Granite has a medium to coarse texture, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the groundmass forming a rock known as Porphyry ....
  
• Aberdeen granite
• Limestone
  Limestone
  
  File:Limestone Formation In Waitomo.jpgLimestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite . The deposition of limestone strata is often a by-product and indicator of biological activity in the geology record....
  
• Ancaster stone
  Ancaster stone
  
  Ancaster stone is Middle Jurassic oolitic limestone, quarried around Ancaster, Lincolnshire, England. There are two forms, the rag and the freestone....
  
• Barnack rag
  Barnack
  
  Barnack is a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority of Cambridgeshire, England. It is located in the north-west of the district, only four miles south-east from Stamford, Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire....
  
• Beer stone
  Beer stone
  
  Not to be confused with beerstone, the scale that forms on the inside of beer storage equipment.Beer stone is a creamy-white, fine-textured limestone that takes its name from the town of Beer, Devon, where it was quarry and mined from Roman times....
  
• Clipsham stone
• Corallian limestone
  Corallian Limestone
  
  Corallian Limestone is a coralliferous sedimentary rock, laid down in Jurassic times. It is a hard variety of "coral rag". Building stones from this geological structure tend to be irregular in shape....
  
• Cotswold stone
  Cotswold stone
  
  Cotswold stone is a yellow oolite limestone quarried in many places in the Cotswolds in the south midlands of England. When weathered the colour of buildings made or faced with this stone is often described as 'honey' or 'golden'....
   (Oolitic limestone)
• Forest marble
  Forest Marble
  
  The is a geological Formation in Europe. It dates back to the Middle Jurassic....
  
• Ketton Stone
  Ketton stone
  
  Ketton stone is a Jurassic oolite limestone used as a building stone for many centuries. It is named after the village of Ketton in Rutland, England....
  
• Magnesian limestone
• Portland stone
  Portland stone
  
  Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period Quarry on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds....
  
• Portland Admiralty Roach
  Portland Admiralty Roach
  
  Portland Admiralty Roach is a kind of Rock from the Isle of Portland used to construct "The Cobb", the well known seawall at Lyme Regis in Dorset....
  
• Portland Bowers Basebed
• Portland Bowers Lynham Whitbed
• Portland Bowers Saunders Whitbed
• Portland Grove Whitbed
• Portland Hard Blue
• Portland Independent Basebed
• Portland Independent Bottom Whitbed
• Portland Independent Top Whitbed
  Portland Independent Top Whitbed
  
  Portland Independent Top Whitbed is the variety of Portland stone used to build "The Ashton Memorial" in Lancaster, England. It originates from Independent quarries on the Isle of Portland, Dorset....
  
• Portland New Independent Whitbed
• Purbeck marble
  Purbeck Marble
  
  Purbeck Marble is a fossiliferous limestone quarry in the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in south-east Dorset, England.It is one of many kinds of Purbeck Limestone, deposited in the late Jurassic or early Cretaceous periods....
  
• magnesium limestone
• Sandstone
  Sandstone
  
  Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock Particle size . Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust ....
  
• Banktop
• Bearl
• Blaxter
• Catcastle
• Corsehill
• Corncockle
• Dunhouse Blue
• Dunhouse Buff
• Hall Dale
• Haslingden Flag
• Heavitree stone
• Locharbriggs
  Locharbriggs
  
  Locharbriggs is a village in former Dumfriesshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland home of Rachael Kirk who strikes fears into the surrounding ethnic minorities....
  
• Ravensworth
• Yorkstone
  Yorkstone
  
  Yorkstone is a term for a variety of sandstoneKnown for its hard wearing and durable qualities Yorkstone has been used in a wide array of building, construction and landscaping applications around the world for many years....
  
• Slate
  Slate
  
  Slate is a fine-grained, foliation , homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcano ash through low grade regional metamorphism....
  
• Welsh Slate
• Skiddaw Slate
  Skiddaw Slate
  
  Skiddaw slate is an early Ordovician metamorphosed sedimentary rock, as first identified on the slopes of Skiddaw in the England Lake District....
  

United States of America

• Brownstone
  Brownstone
  
  Brownstone is a brown Triassic sandstone which was once a popular building material. The term is also understood to be a terraced house clad in this material....
  , a type of Triassic
  Triassic
  
  The Triassic is a geologic period that extends from about 251 to 199 annum . As the first period of the Mesozoic Era, the Triassic follows the Permian and is followed by the Jurassic....
   Sandstone
  Sandstone
  
  Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock Particle size . Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust ....
  
• Granite
  Granite
  
  Granite is a common and widely occurring type of Intrusion , felsic, igneous rock rock . Granite has a medium to coarse texture, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the groundmass forming a rock known as Porphyry ....
  , extensively quarried in Vermont
  Vermont
  
  Vermont is a U.S. state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. The state ranks 43rd by land area, , and 45th by total area....
   and New Hampshire
  New Hampshire
  
  New Hampshire is a U.S. state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States of America. The state was named after the southern English Counties of England of Hampshire....
  

See also

• Rock (geology)
  Rock (geology)
  
  In geology, rock is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids.The Earth's outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock....
  
• List of minerals
  List of minerals
  
  This is a List of minerals for which there are Wikipedia articles. Mineral variety names and mineraloids are to be listed after the valid minerals for each letter....
  
• List of rock types
• Quarry
  Quarry
  
  A quarry is a type of open-pit mining from which rock or minerals are extracted. Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone....
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• Architecture
  Architecture
  
  The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
  
• NIST stone test wall
  NIST stone test wall
  
  The NIST stone test wall is an experiment by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology to determine how different types of construction rock weather....
  
• Khachkar
  Khachkar
  
  A Khachkar or Khatchkar is a carved memorial stone, typically found in Armenia....
  
• Difference between rock and stone
• (German)