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lithological, a.|lɪθəʊˈlɒdʒɪkəl|
[f. lithology + -ic + -al1.]
Pertaining to lithology; relating to the nature or composition of stones.
1797Monthly Mag. III. 50 A description of the lithological and mineralogical empire. 1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 237 To put the student upon his guard against too implicit a reliance on lithological characters as tests of the relative ages of rocks. Ibid., Gloss., Lithological, a term expressing the stony structure or character of a mineral mass. We speak of the lithological character of a stratum as distinguished from its zoological character. 1881Ramsay in Nature No. 618. 420 The various formations, by help of the fossils they contain, have been correlated in time, often in spite of great differences in their lithological characters.
Hence lithoˈlogically adv., in regard to lithology; with respect to the nature of stones.
1845Capt. Newbold in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal XIV. 300 Ferruginous and coloured clays that sometimes, lithologically speaking, resemble laterite. 1872W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks iv. 84 The Aran range, with its mountain peaks,..resembles the rocks of Cader Idris lithologically. |