Characterized by metamorphosis or change in physical form or substance.
Of or relating to metamorphosis (especially of rocks)
1 These few examples must suffice of the great class of metamorphic rocks.
2 Long sheets of metamorphic rock that have been sheared in two.
3 Eruptive rocks had burst through the chalk, producing interesting metamorphic phenomena.
4 So again the making out of cleavage and the foliation of the metamorphic rocks.
5 In many cases, however, the early history of a metamorphic rock can be deciphered.
6 Where the metamorphic change has been greatest, two varieties occur.
7 There are 3 specific kinds of metamorphic rock in N.Y.C.
8 They are of quartzite, lava, greenstone, metamorphic rock and basalt.
9 And there are occasional insights into the metamorphic and precarious state of the publishing industry.
10 The gold-bearing quartz veins of California traverse the metamorphic slates of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
11 There is no igneous, no metamorphic rock here; nothing but limestone of the Jurassic formation.
12 Actinolites are found in some highly metamorphic gneisses, brought by landslips from the neighbouring heights.
13 It is a primordial chain-thatis to say, anterior to all organic and metamorphic creation.
14 The rock is metamorphic , in that volcanic heat and pressure has altered its structure somewhat.
15 The rocks continued to show volcanic and metamorphic formation.
16 It is drawn from the phenomena presented by all kinds of rocks, aqueous, igneous, metamorphic .
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