Metamorphic Petrology
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 22, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780195210262
First sentence: Metamorphism is a collective name for the mineralogical, chemical and textural changes of rocks that take place in an essentially solid state, that is, without substantial melting, in the deeper parts of the Earth at various temperatures higher than those encountered on the Earth's surface.