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Significados de metamorphic em inglês

Characterized by metamorphosis or change in physical form or substance.

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Of or relating to metamorphosis (especially of rocks)

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These few examples must suffice of the great class of metamorphic rocks.
The Elements of Geology
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Long sheets of metamorphic rock that have been sheared in two.
Under the dome: a novel
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Eruptive rocks had burst through the chalk, producing interesting metamorphic phenomena.
Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879
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So again the making out of cleavage and the foliation of the metamorphic rocks.
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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In many cases, however, the early history of a metamorphic rock can be deciphered.
The Elements of Geology
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Where the metamorphic change has been greatest, two varieties occur.
Volcanic Islands
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There are 3 specific kinds of metamorphic rock in N.Y.C.
The new yorker
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They are of quartzite, lava, greenstone, metamorphic rock and basalt.
Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the India...
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And there are occasional insights into the metamorphic and precarious state of the publishing industry.
The Irish Times
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The gold-bearing quartz veins of California traverse the metamorphic slates of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
The Elements of Geology
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There is no igneous, no metamorphic rock here; nothing but limestone of the Jurassic formation.
Wanderings by Southern Waters, Eastern Aquitaine
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Actinolites are found in some highly metamorphic gneisses, brought by landslips from the neighbouring heights.
Himalayan Journals — Volume 2 / Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Ben...
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It is a primordial chain-thatis to say, anterior to all organic and metamorphic creation.
In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant
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The rock is metamorphic, in that volcanic heat and pressure has altered its structure somewhat.
The Guardian
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The rocks continued to show volcanic and metamorphic formation.
Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) / A Record of Five Years' Explor...
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It is drawn from the phenomena presented by all kinds of rocks, aqueous, igneous, metamorphic.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
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