Metamorphic Definition

mĕtə-môrfĭk
adjective
Of, characterized by, causing, or formed by metamorphism or metamorphosis.
Webster's New World
Changed in structure or composition as a result of metamorphism. Used of rock.
American Heritage
(geology) Having been structurally altered as a result of, or resulting from, exposure to intense heat and/or pressure (at the contact zone between colliding plates, for example).
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  • nonmetamorphic
noun
(mineralogy) A rock that has been changed from its original form by subjection to heat and/or pressure.
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Origin of Metamorphic

  • From metamorphosis +"Ž -ic.

    From Wiktionary

  • metamorph(osis) –ic

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Metamorphic Sentence Examples

  • The central plateau consists almost entirely of metamorphic rocks with extensive tracts of granite in Unyamwezi.

  • In many deposits of iron ores found in connexion with igneous or metamorphic rocks small quantities of phosphate occur.

  • Consisting of red sandstones, mudstones and conglomerates, they are inclined at high angles usually away from the granite massif and the encircling metamorphic rocks.

  • In the Umzimkulu river and in the Tugela river below its junction with the Buffalo, metamorphic limestones are associated with schists, gneisses and granites.

  • They occur (a) in crystalline igneous and metamorphic rocks as an original constituent, (b) in veins associated with igneous rocks, and (c) in sedimentary rocks either as organic fragments or in secondary concretionary forms.

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