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metamorphic

[ US /ˌmɛtəˈmɔɹfɪk/ ]
[ UK /mˌɛtəmˈɔːfɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to metamorphosis (especially of rocks)
    metamorphic stage
    marble is a metamorphic rock that takes a high polish
  2. characterized by metamorphosis or change in physical form or substance

How To Use metamorphic In A Sentence

  • The flake mica produced in the U.S. comes from several sources: the metamorphic rock called schist as a by-product of processing feldspar and kaolin resources, from placer deposits, and from pegmatites. Mica
  • It is also a widespread constituent of a variety of igneous and metamorphic rocks and is occasionally found in pegmatites and in related veins marginal to igneous rock units ranging from granite to diabase.
  • Clastic rock and low - grade metamorphic rock , and the non - disease area is mainly in the coal stratum.
  • The distribution of mineral parageneses and illite crystallinity across one of the upright folds suggests that strain gradients favoured the metamorphic reaction progress from the hinge (low strain) towards the limbs (high strain).
  • Some organisms, such as flukes, have life cycles that take them literally through one or more host organisms, and many insects undergo significant metamorphic changes in bodily form through their life cycle. The Biological Notion of Individual
  • As a result, the metamorphic forms have a simultaneously repellant and enticing effect.
  • Some structural, petrological and isotopic evidence suggests multi-stage and possibly polycyclic metamorphic evolution of the granulites of the Eastern Ghats belt.
  • Imbricated clasts indicate eastward palaeocurrents away from the metamorphic complex.
  • While concretised metaphors may be written into the strange fiction of novae, errata and chimerae, and this sort of fantastication therefore quite familiar, the pataphor is noticeably distinct in the fact that it concretises the metaphor, in this example, as it occurs, violating convention in the most fundamental way, rendering the whole narrative as unpredictable and metamorphic as a dream. Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
  • Normal faulting led to the unroofing of metamorphic rocks in their footwalls.
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