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metamorphic

/met-uh-mawr-fik/US // ˌmɛt əˈmɔr fɪk //UK // (ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfɪk) //

变质岩,变质的,变质,变质体

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or characterized by change of form, or metamorphosis.
    • : Geology. pertaining to or exhibiting structural change or metamorphism.

Examples

  • While Schindler takes a philosophical view of physical change, other participants highlight the metamorphic quality of their artistic methods.

  • Thus, after the Capitol was burned during the War of 1812, reconstruction made use of marble — a harder, metamorphic rock found on the upper Potomac.

  • It’s an often overlooked area full of bizarre rock features, metamorphic leftovers, and historic trails, and with only an eighth of Yellowstone’s annual visitation, it’s ripe for discovery.

  • She has been working with David Baker at the University of Washington on designing metamorphic proteins not seen in nature.

  • These metamorphic proteins change quickly and reversibly from one folded shape to another inside organisms.

  • The "erratics" comprised a great variety of metamorphic and igneous rocks, and, on a more limited scale, sedimentary types.

  • The rock here is metamorphic, the soil worthless, the scenery rugged, yet mean.

  • It occurs in beds (talc-slate), and is often met with in districts occupied by metamorphic crystalline rocks.

  • Thus, highly micaceous sandstones, as they are traced into a metamorphic region, are seen to pass gradually into mica-schist.

  • There are a number of other metamorphic rocks, but those mentioned are the most commonly occurring species.