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.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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And the low percent of smectite in both mixed-layer phases reflects a high degree of burial metamorphism since the time of their origin.
Such clays would be expected to show a transition to more highly ordered forms during increased burial metamorphism (Altaner & Bethke 1989), particularly in shales and mudrocks undergoing basinal subsidence.
Traces of explosive volcanic eruptions in the Upper Ordovician of the Siberian Platform
These conditions indicate a metamorphic gradient between 25 [degrees]C/km and 50 [degrees]C/km, conditions best labelled burial metamorphism (Smulikowski et al.
Very low- and low-grade metamorphism of mafic volcanic rocks of the Mira terrane (Avalonia), southeastern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
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