burial metamorphism
burial metamorphism
[′ber·ē·əl med·ə′mȯr‚fiz·əm] (geology)
A kind of regional metamorphism which affects sediments and interbedded volcanic rocks in a geosyncline without the factors of orogenesis or magmatic intrusions.
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