Definition of Nonmetamorphic

1. Adjective. Not metamorphic.

Similar to: Ametabolic
Antonyms: Metamorphic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonmetamorphic

nonmessengers
nonmessianic
nonmessy
nonmetabolic
nonmetabolizable
nonmetabolized
nonmetachromatic
nonmetal
nonmetallic
nonmetalliferous
nonmetallized
nonmetallurgist
nonmetallurgists
nonmetals
nonmetameric
nonmetamorphic (current term)
nonmetaphoric
nonmetaphorical
nonmetaphysical
nonmetaplastic
nonmetastable
nonmetastasized
nonmetastatic
nonmetered
nonmethanogenic
nonmethodical
nonmethodological
nonmethoxylated
nonmethylated
nonmetric

Literary usage of Nonmetamorphic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1911)
"This is an unusual phase of the greenstone series and has not been recognized elsewhere. nonmetamorphic IGNEOUS ROCKS, There are three large areas of ..."

2. Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly (1918)
"nonmetamorphic MARBLES Several kinds of unmetamorphosed limestones that occur in the State have been used for ornamental stones and may be included with the ..."

3. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1883)
"... the higher gneissic beds, with a north-easterly dip, gradually become interstratified with nonmetamorphic slates, sandstones, ..."

4. Geology of the Pegmatites and Associated Rocks of Maine Including Feldspar by Edson Sunderland Bastin (1911)
"This is an unusual phase of the greenstone series and has not been recognized elsewhere. nonmetamorphic IGNEOUS ROCKS. There are three large areas of ..."

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