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Petrology is the study of rocks and the processes that lead to their formation and alteration.

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Is there a difference between rock and stone?

Most sources say that rocks are made of stones. (Or at least that stones are rock fragments.) From the Bing dictionary (definition of stone): hard nonmetallic material: the hard solid nonmet …
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