Types of metamorphism
1. Contact: from
heat and fluids of nearby igneous intrusion
Hydrothermal
Activity, circulation of water through rock, can concentrate rare metals,
feed biological communities
2. Dynamic: where
rocks slide past each other, forms mylonite
3. Regional: large-scale,
High pressures, usually at plate boundaries
Classification
Foliated:
minerals become aligned due to directed stress
Low-grade: slate splits into flat slabs
Intermediate grade: schist, larger crystals grow
High grade: gneiss, banded texture, minerals separate
Beyond gneiss? Melting (migmatite: part metamorphic/ part igneous rock)
nonfoliated: either no “alignable” minerals OR no directed stress
Marble: from limestone
Quartzite:from sandstone