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Specialty Expressions: IGNEOUS METAMORPHISM

ExpressionsDomainDefinition
Igneous metamorphismMiningA high-temperature metamorphic process that includes the effects of magma on adjacent rocks as well as those due to injection pegmatitization (Lindgren, 1933). The term is no longer in common use. Cf: pyrometamorphism. (references)

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