Multilingual dictionary of abbreviations

Petrology

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Meaning

Language

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AP

Argile Plastique

In French

CNNMN

Commision on New Minerals and Mineral Names

In English

CoMP

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

In English

FG

Fausses Glaises

In French

JMPS

Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences

In English

JPet

Journal of Petrology (https://academic.oup.com/petrology)

In English

MORB

Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalt

In English

MetPetDB
Metamorphic Petrology Database
MetPetDB (Metamorphic Petrology Database) is a geochemical database specific to metamorphic rock samples. It has been designed around the concept of preservation of spatial relationships, at all scales, of chemical analyses and their textural settings.

In English

MinPe

Mineralogy and Petrology

In English

PetDB
Petrological Database of the Ocean Floor (https://www.earthchem.org/petdb)
PetDB (Petrological Database of the Ocean Floor) is a searchable database of published geochemical data for igneous and metamorphic rocks of the ocean floor, including magmatic rocks generated at mid-ocean ridges, back-arc basins, or young seamounts, abyssal peridotites, old oceanic crust, mantle xenoliths, and ophiolites.

In English

QAPF

Quartz, Alkali feldspar, Plagioclase, Feldspathoid

In English

SA

Sables d’Auteuil

In French

SC

Sables de Cuise

In French

SF

Sables de Fontainebleau

In French

SS

Sables Supérieurs

In French

TAS

Total-Alkali-Silica

In English

TSOP
The Society for Organic Petrology (https://www.tsop.org/)
The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) is a non-profit organization for scientists and engineers involved with coal petrology, kerogen petrology, organic geochemistry and related disciplines. Its objectives are to promote research and state-of-the-art technologies in organic petrology, as well as to work for acceptable classifications of sedimentary organic matter.

In English