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EXOMETAMORPHISM [1 record]

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Record 1 2005-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vulcanology and Seismology
  • Petrography
DEF

Changes in country rock produced by the intense heat and other properties of magma or lava in contact with them ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Volcanologie et sismologie
  • Pétrographie
CONT

Les auréoles [du métamorphisme de contact] [...] laissent apparaître autour d'un batholite granitique des zones de métamorphisme décroissant où les cristallisations se font avec ou sans apport. C'est le phénomène d'exomorphisme par opposition à l'endomorphisme qui affecte la constitution du magma intrusif [...]

CONT

[...] les roches basiques anciennes [...] subissent un endométamorphisme et induisent un exométamorphisme [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vulcanología y sismología
  • Petrografía
DEF

Alteración o modificación de las rocas que ha sido originada por el contacto o la proximidad de rocas endógenas.

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