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Ääntäminen
- UK:
- IPA: /mɛtəˈmɔːfɪz(ə)m/
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| italia | metamorfismo |
| ranska | métamorphisme |
| tšekki | metamorfóza |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (geology) The process by which rocks are changed into other forms by the application of heat and/or pressure.
- (zoology) The process by which insects develop through life stages, for example, those of embryo, larva, pupa and imago. The life cycle of the butterfly is one of complete metamorphosis, in which the embryo grows within the egg, hatches into the larval stage caterpillar, enters the pupal stage within its chrysalis, and finally emerges as an adult butterfly imago.
- (by extension) Any dramatic change from one thing to another
Esimerkit
- burial means that the ambient pressure on the rock increases – as does the temperature. This encourages metamorphism.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | metamorphisms |
(geology) The process by which rocks are changed into other forms by the application of heat and/or pressure.
Schematic representation of a metamorphic reaction. Abbreviations of minerals: act = actinolite; chl = chlorite; ep = epidote; gt = garnet; hbl = hornblende; plag = plagioclase. Two minerals represented in the figure do not participate in the reaction, they can be quartz and K-feldspar. This reaction takes place in nature when a mafic rock goes from amphibolite facies to greenschist facies.
(geology) The process by which rocks are changed into other forms by the application of heat and/or pressure.
A cross-polarized thin section image of a garnet-mica-schist from Salangen Municipality, Norway showing the strong strain fabric of schists. The black crystal is garnet, the pink-orange-yellow colored strands are muscovite mica, and the brown crystals are biotite mica. The grey and white crystals are quartz and (limited) feldspar.
(geology) The process by which rocks are changed into other forms by the application of heat and/or pressure.
(Left) Randomly-orientated grains in a rock before metamorphism. (Right) Grains align orthogonal to the applied stress if a rock is subjected to stress during metamorphism