14 Facts About Metamorphic rock

Metamorphic rock can be formed locally when rock is heated by the intrusion of hot molten rock called magma from the Earth's interior.

The importance of heating in the formation of metamorphic rock was first noted by the pioneering Scottish naturalist, James Hutton, who is often described as the father of modern geology.

Likewise, forsterite is stable over a broad range of pressure and temperature in marble, but is converted to pyroxene at elevated pressure and temperature in more silicate-rich Metamorphic rock containing plagioclase, with which the forsterite reacts chemically.

Foliation develops when a Metamorphic rock is being shortened along one axis during recrystallization.

In general, if the protolith of a metamorphic rock can be determined, the rock is described by adding the prefix meta- to the protolith rock name.

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Where the mineral mode cannot be determined, as is often the case when Metamorphic rock is first examined in the field, then classification must be based on texture.

Metamorphic facies is a set of distinctive assemblages of minerals that are found in metamorphic rock that formed under a specific combination of pressure and temperature.

Metamorphic rock is extensively exposed in orogenic belts produced by the collision of tectonic plates at convergent boundaries.

Metamorphic rock formed in these settings tends to shown well-developed schistosity.

Eclogites are occasionally found at sites of continental collision, where the subducted Metamorphic rock is rapidly brought back to the surface, before it can be converted to the granulite facies in the hot upper mantle.

Metamorphic rock is exposed in metamorphic core complexes, which form in region of crustal extension.

The Metamorphic rock exposed in the oldest regions of shields, which is of Archean age, mostly belong to granite-greenstone belts.

Around the igneous Metamorphic rock that forms from the cooling magma is a metamorphosed zone called a contact aureole.

Schistose bedMetamorphic rock can pose a challenge for civil engineering because of its pronounced planes of weakness.