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Chapter 8: Major Elements - Faculty web pages

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Pressure-Temperature<br />

Temperature-Time Time (P-T-t) Paths<br />

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Classic view: regional metamorphism is a result of deep<br />

burial or intrusion of hot magmas<br />

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Plate tectonic view: regional metamorphism is a result of<br />

crustal thickening and heat input during orogeny at<br />

convergent plate boundaries (not simple burial)

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