Hypertext Webster Gateway: "metamorphism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Metamorphism \Met`a*mor"phism\, n. (Geol.)
The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by
which the material of rock masses has been more or less
recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of
sedimentary limestone to marble. --Murchison.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
metamorphism
n : change in the structure of rock by natural agencies such as
pressure or heat of introduction of new chemical
substances
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