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How rough is a metamorphic rock?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Metamorphic rocks generally are not categorized by their roughness, but instead by their degree of foliation or lack of it.

The "roughness" of a metamorphic rock is unknown unless sample is in hand.

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