Metallogeny
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Metallogeny is the study of the genesis and regional to global distribution of mineral deposits, with emphasis on their relationship in space and time to regional petrologic
Petrology
Petrology is the branch of geology that studies rocks, and the conditions in which rocks form....

 and tectonic features of the Earth's crust.
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