petrologist
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petrologist (plural petrologists)
- A geologist who specializes in petrology.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 76:
- As Kirkpatrick worked, Otto Hahn - an intensely patriotic German lawyer and amateur petrologist turned Swedenborgian who believed life originated in outer space - was spending long hours staring down his microscope at what he took to be the fossilised remnants of algae.