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Metamorphic   Listen
adjective
Metamorphic  adj.  
1.
Subject to change; changeable; variable.
2.
Causing a change of structure.
3.
(Geol.) Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition; especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks.





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"Metamorphic" Quotes from Famous Books



... precipitous hill-sides; and the common trail, which leads along the mountain-side at places where the river strikes the base, is sometimes bad even for a horseman. The mountains along this day's journey were composed, near the river, of a slaty calcareous rock in a metamorphic condition. It appears originally to have been a slaty sedimentary limestone, but its present condition indicates that it has been altered, and has become partially crystalline—probably from the proximity of volcanic rocks. But though traveling was slow and fatiguing ...
— The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California • Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont
... metamorphism will long do him honor. The mineralogical modifications which the eruptive rocks have undergone in the mass are the permanent witnesses which attracted all his attention. The chemical comparison of the metamorphic with the normal rock pointed out distinctly the nature of the substances acquired or lost. One of the principal results of these analyses has been to lessen the importance attributed until then to heat alone, ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various


Words linked to "Metamorphic" :   hemimetabolous, changed, hemimetamorphic, holometabolous, metamorphosis, heterometabolic, nonmetamorphic, epimorphic, heterometabolous, metamorphous, hemimetamorphous, holometabolic


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