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A metamorphic rock is an igneous, sedimentary, or another metamorphic rock that has been: 1) squeezed by incredible pressures deep underground, 2) has been exposed to very hot fluids, 3) has been exposed to very high temperatures without melt occurring, 4) combinations of numbers 1-3. Rock exposed to these conditions can be metamorphosed, altering its structure, mineral alignment, and possibly its chemistry.
Examples are slate, schist, anthracite, metaconglomerate, and gneiss.
a metamorphic rock is a rock that has changed because of intense heat or pressure.rock altered by pressure and heat.
A metamorphic rock is one that has been significantly changed from its original condition. At least by heating due to re-burial, and sometimes by being completely re-melted before subsequent crystallization. In either process, some of the original minerals have become mobilized to create new minerals. During intense metamorphism, the original layering of the rock will be destroyed.
Geoffrey Huels
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Definition of a metamorphic rock?
a rock that cAN CHANGE TO IGNEOUS, METAMORPHIC, AND SEDIMENTARY
Can metamorphic rock melt to form sedimentary rock?
No. If a rock melts and then re-solidifies, then by definition the resulting rock is igneous.
Are Foliate rocks metamorphic?
Foliation is a descriptive term applied to certain types of metamorphic rocks, so, by definition, Yes, a folate rock is metamorphic.
What rock was oringinally a metamorphic rock?
No rock was originally a metamorphic rock. By the definition of the word metamorphic rocks are rocks that have been formed from other rocks (sedimentary or igneous) either by formation of new minerals because of temperature and pressure changes or by changing the texture of the rock by large stresses shearing the rock.
What kind of rock is formed with heat and pressure?
Metamorphic rocks, like slate or quartizite, or even diamonds.
What type of rock is slate?
A metamorphic rock.
What can you find in a metamorphic rock?
in a metamorphic rock you find rock.
What rocks change into metamorphic rocks?
Any type of rock can become metamorphic.
Is marble igneous or sedimentary?
Marble is the metamorphosed result of limestone. Therefore, marble is metamorphic.
Is volcanic rock igneous sedimentary or metamorphic and why?
Volcanic rock is igneous. This is because rock that forms fromt the cooling of molten material is the very definition of igneous rock.
Is the rock chalk metamorphic?
No it is not metamorphic, it is a sedimentary rock.
Is chert a metamorphic rock?
Chert is NOT a metamorphic rock.
