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Definition of Metamorphisms
1. metamorphism [n] - See also: metamorphism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metamorphisms
Literary usage of Metamorphisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1912)
"The cause of transformations and metamorphisms can not be given by any ...
Metaphysics ascribes transformations and metamorphisms to the inherent ..."
2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1889)
"I have seen sections well showing the contact metamorphisms of this dolomite.
I should be much obliged if any geologist having the time would kindly examine ..."
3. Text-book of Geology by Sir Archibald Geikie (1902)
"... and metamorphisms so conspicuous along the northwestern European border, that
to this day they remain over wide spaces nearly as horizontal and soft as ..."
4. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1921)
"Contact, thermal, regional (dynamo-thermal), cataclastic and plutonic metamorphisms.
Their mechanisms and products. Important economic minerals associated ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1877)
"Dykes and overflows of lava produce metamorphisms, not only by contact heat,
which involves electrical action, but at a distance, in modes which cannot be ..."
6. A Treatise on Rocks, Rock-weathering and Soils by George Perkins Merrill (1897)
"Since these changes are confined to limited areas along the line of the contacts
between the two bodies, they are denned as contact metamorphisms. ..."
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