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

synonym: petrology.

Roget 358: mineral world, mineral kingdom; unorganized matter, inorganic matter, brute matter, inanimate matter.    [Science of the mineral kingdom] mineralogy, geology, geognosy^†, geoscopy^†; metallurgy, metallography^†; lithology; oryctology^†, oryctography^†.    ... show more

Dutch: lithologie, steenkunde
Polish: petrografia, petrologia, litologia