it is important because geologist are hired by company's that mine for different minerals and natural gases. they need to know where there are different rock and know back round information for those rocks and see if they are what the company's looking for.
Geologists are people who study rocks and minerals.
Igneous rocks.Sedimentary rocks.Metamorphic rocks.
The purpose is to discover how the rocks and minerals were formed and what the rocks and minerals are made of.
That would be a geologist? Or if you wanted a name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geologists
A petrologist studies the history and structure of rocks. Geologists and paleontologists also have great interest in rocks.
Rocks are to geologists as stars are to astronomers.
Geologists don't use rocks, they study them.
Geologists study rocks.
Geologists are people who study rocks and minerals.
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Geologists.
Through observation of sedimentary rocks, geologists are able to analyze rock layers and date the rocks by testing the carbon in each sample.
Geologists classify metamorphic rocks by the arrangements of the grains that make up the rocks.
zimzy rocks
A petrophile.Actually, dating of rocks is usually done by geologists or geochemists; I am not aware of a more specialized term than those.
Geologists are best described as studying rocks. These geologists may be studying rock features or impacts made on rocks for example.
Geologists study the origins, physical history, and structure of earth.