Metamorphic Environments
Metamorphic rocks had previous “lives.” The minerals in the original rock formed under one set of conditions. Then, after being subjected to different degrees of heat, pressure, and abundance of water, they transformed into different minerals.
Topics
- mountain building
- tectonic plates
- crustal thickening
- metamorphism
- regional metamorphism
- heat and pressure
- mineralogy
- rock texture
- plate collision
- orogeny
- geology