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What is the difference between a petrologist and a paleontologist?
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∙ 14y ago
Geology is the history of the earth or other planets, their constituent materials, and the forces that went into their creation. Paleontology is the study of fossil forms of life and their relationship to geology and geologic time periods.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 12y agoPetrology is a sub category of geology It is concerned specifically with the composition, origin and texture of rocks.
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∙ 12y agoGeology generally deals with rocks, minerals, and has a relationship with chemistry; whereas paleontology is studying organisms and climates with rock, more of a relationship with Biology.
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∙ 15y agoPetrology is the study of rocks, and the conditions in which they form while mineralogy focused around the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical properties of minerals.
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∙ 14y agoa petrologist studies rocks and how they were formed.
paleontologists look at things like fossils of animals and plants
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What are the main conspts paleontologist use?
paleontologist use no concepts
Who dig up fossils?
paleontologist
Dinos and fossils?
Paleontologist
What are the roles of a paleontologist?
a peron
Does paleontologist have anything to do with chemistry?
A paleontologist is not a chemist. A paleontologist digs up and studies the remains of very ancient animals, such as dinosaurs, and other organisms. They use chemical knowledge to recover, analyze, and preserve specimens, but they are not chemists.
What is the difference between meteorologist and paleontologist?
A meteorologist spends their life studying weather, a paleontologist spends their life studying fossils.
What is the difference between a paleontologist and a paleoanthropologist?
Paleoanthropology is a sect of paleontology. So while a paleontologist studies prehistoric life, a paleoanthropologist just studies ancient humans.
What is a petrologist?
the study of rocks
Who is the scientist that sudies rocks?
petrologist
A scientist who studies fossils?
Paleontologist
What is the average salary for a Petrologist?
Around 75k/year
A scientist that studies rock?
A petrologist studies rock.
What do you call a rock expert?
petrologist
How many years does a petrologist have to go to college?
the answer to that is six years.
A person who studies rock?
A petrologist (which is a special type of geologist).
How do paleontologist tools work?
With the aid of a paleontologist.
Does petrologist study drinking water?
They study rocks. Not drinking water.
