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By Andrew Alden, About.com Guide to Geology

Introducing QAP

Friday December 3, 2004
This is serious stuff: how to classify igneous rocks on the Q-A-P diagram. If you're preparing to be a geologist--or at least a petrologist--you have to know this stuff cold. But this page is also useful just for staring at, to learn the names and relationships of the major igneous rock types. Give it a look...

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