The Rock Cycle is Earth's great recycling process where igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all be derived from and form one another. Analogous to recycling a Coke can, where an old ...

It focuses on the thermal and tectonic evolution of regional metamorphism at convergent continental margins based on a systematic outline of metamorphic temperature (T), pressure (P) and time (t ...

Metamorphic core complexes are domal uplifts of metamorphic and plutonic rocks bounded by shear zones that separate them from unmetamorphosed cover rocks1. Interpretations of how these features ...

Rocks turn metamorphic when they are subjected to very high heat and pressure. This alters the chemical and structural makeup of the minerals within the rock, changing it into a new metamorphic rock.

The dirt on metamorphic rocks. Add some heat and lots of pressure and voila, everyday rocks like limestone and sandstone turn into their much more glamorous metamorphic cousins.