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A. Pressure and heat. Both found in the mantle of the Earth.

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Heat, such as volcanic activity and extreme pressure such as overburden (metamorphic rocks become changed by being at extreme depths below other rock).

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the two things that primarily take place for a rock to be a metamorphic rock is mainly extreme heat, and pressure. when these two collide, you get a meta-morph-ic rock

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Heat and pressure.

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