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Metamorphism

noun
1.
Change in the structure of rock by natural agencies such as pressure or heat or introduction of new chemical substances.





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... crevice are gone, and we are in a wild region of ancient metamorphic rocks—schists, quartzites, gneisses, and granites—which form wide moorlands, dotted with innumerable lakelets, with noble mountain groups rising over the wild boggy lowlands. To the student of metamorphism the geology of this area is of very high interest. The botanist finds himself once again, as in Kerry, in a focus of the southern flora already discussed. As stated above, Connemara contributes to the list of Pyrenean plants ...
— The Sunny Side of Ireland - How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway • John O'Mahony and R. Lloyd Praeger


Words linked to "Metamorphism" :   geological process, epigenesis, anamorphism, geologic process, katamorphism


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