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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



... stratum, over a perhaps uninteresting district; where the unlearned spectator would be touched with strong emotion by the aspect of the snowy summits which rise in the distance, he sees only the culminating points of a metamorphic formation, with an uncomfortable web of fan-like fissures radiating, in his imagination, through their centres[104]. That in the grasp he has obtained of the inner relations of all these things to the universe, ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin

... saw, what generations of predecessors had blindly refused to see, that the face of nature everywhere, instead of being rigid and immutable, is perennially plastic, and year by year is undergoing metamorphic changes. The solidest rocks are day by day disintegrated slowly, but none the less surely, by wind and rain and frost, by mechanical attrition and chemical decomposition, to form the pulverized earth and clay. This soil is being swept away by perennial showers, and carried off to the oceans. ...
— A History of Science, Volume 3(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams

... crammed full of organic remains, may yet, either by the percolation of water through them, or by the influence of subterranean heat, lose all trace of these remains, and present the appearance of beds of rock formed under conditions in which living forms were absent. Such metamorphic rocks occur in formations of all ages; and, in various cases, there are very good grounds for the belief that they have contained organic remains, and that those remains have been ...
— American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology • Tomas Henry Huxley

... divisions have been organized to prosecute work on the archaean rocks, embracing within their field not only all rocks of archaean age, but all metamorphic crystalline schists, of whatever age they may be found. The first division has for its chief Prof. Raphael Pumpelly, assisted by a corps of geologists, and the field of his work is the crystalline schists of the Appalachian region, or eastern portion of the United States, extending from ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 • Various



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



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