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metamorphic rock

  1. Rock that was once one form of rock but has changed to another under the influence of heat, pressure , or some other agent without passing through a liquid phase.


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Notes

Examples are marble, which can be formed from limestone , and slate, which is formed from shale .
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It’s the sturdy metamorphic rock that underlies the Los Angeles Basin, “the bedrock of this whole area,” Coffey says.

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It’s a metamorphic rock, which means it becomes something new under extreme heat and pressure without melting.

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The person with knowledge of the matter said that the group’s name derived from the metamorphic rock, signaling the group’s intent to be enduring and maintain a clarity of purpose.

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Equipment designed for the softer, cooler sedimentary rock often found in oil fields falters in the extremes of hot, hard metamorphic rocks such as granite.

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Marble, the metamorphic rock, embodied for me a dark paradox: It is change that produces changelessness.

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