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What is a metamorphic rock?

What is a metamorphic rock? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) one of the major groups of rock that makes up the crust of the Earth; consists of pre-existing rock mass in which new minerals or textures are formed at higher temperatures and greater pressures than those present on the Earth's surface
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The Bihor Massif is also of metamorphic rock but is covered with younger sediments.
The various mineral phases of a metamorphic rock have different physical properties and symmetries.
From the coast, the land gradually rises to a height of about 200 metres in a series of irregular waves of folded metamorphic rock.
Most of these are on igneous and metamorphic rock to minimize groundwater losses.
Gneiss: A coarse-grained metamorphic rock that shows banding or alternating dark and light-coloured beds.
The cone, made up of cinders, blocks, and bombs, is perched on the side of a ridge of metamorphic rock.

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