contact metamorphic rock
contact metamorphic rock
[′kän‚takt ‚med·ə′mȯr·fik ′räk] (petrology)
A rock formed by the processes of contact metamorphism.
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References in periodicals archive
Contact metamorphic rocks. In A Systematic Nomenclature for Metamorphic Rocks, IUGS Subcommission on the Systematics of Metamorphic Rocks: Web version 01.02.07, www.bgs.ac.uk/scmr/docs/ papers/paper_10.pdf.
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