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Petrology is the study of the macroscopic and microscopic mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks. In addition to assessing sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks that are accessible at ...

The image shows 3.8-billion-year-old metamorphosed igneous rocks of the Innuksuac Complex on Hudson Bay's eastern shore that hold early geochemical clues to plate-tectonic-like activity. These rocks ...