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METAMORPHITE [1 record]

Record 1 2005-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

A rock derived from preexisting rocks by mineralogical, chemical, and structural alterations due to processes operating within the Earth's crust.

CONT

The gold of India is mainly derived from quartz reefs traversing metamorphic and submetamorphic rocks, and occasionally from gneiss, chloritic schists, and quartzites showing no quartz.

OBS

As a noun "metamorphic" is usually plural.

OBS

See also the more specific terms "para rock" and "ortho rock."

Key term(s)
  • metamorphics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
CONT

Les roches métamorphiques sont des roches sédimentaires ou éruptives, transformées ultérieurement par un facteur d'origine interne tel que compression, échauffement, influence magmatique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
DEF

Roca originada mediante un proceso de metamorfismo y que presenta estructuras características, como la esquistosidad o la pizarrosidad.

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