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Metamorphic Rocks Lesson #14 The descending of rock layers at subduction zones causes metamorphism in two ways; the shearing effect of the plates sliding past each other causes the rocks coming in contact with the descending rocks to change. Some of the descending rock will melt because of this friction.
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- The process of one plate diving under the other is called subduction. Thrust faults can produce larger earthquakes than strike-slip faults. The fault that caused the Sumatra earthquake and tsunami in December 2004 was this sort of fault. Rock may seem brittle, but it’s actually quite elastic.
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Metamorphic Rocks Lesson #14 Metamorphism can be instantaneous as in the shearing of rocks at plate boundaries or can take millions of years as in the slow cooling of magma buried deep under the surface of the Earth. There are three ways that metamorphic rocks can form.
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- Subduction is a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle. Regions where this process occurs are known as subduction zones.
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Subduction Key points. Subduction is a geological process in which the edge of a lithospheric plate slides underneath the edge of an adjacent plate. Subduction is one of the two major processes of plate tectonics, the other being seafloor spreading. Trenches, accretionary wedges (prisms) and volcanic or island arcs are key surface features produced by subduction. A subduction zone is the entire area of subduction between the trench and the volcanic arc. Depending on the particular subduction zone, the angle of descent varies. This affects the distance between the trench and volcanic or island arcs. The trench marks the line where subduction begins.
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The three causes of Metamorphism in Rocks The three causes of Metamorphism in Rocks. Metamorphism in geology is when one type of rock is transformed into another type of rock called a metamorphic rock. The word metamorphic comes from the Greek words meaning “change” and “form.” There are two main factors that can cause the conversion: heat, pressure.
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Plate Boundaries Instead, subduction occurs as the oceanic plate sinks beneath the continental plate. When two plates carrying continental crust collide, subduction does not take place. Neither piece of crust is dense enough to sink very far into the mantle.
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Metamorphism Metamorphism typically occurs between diagenesis (max. 200°C), and melting (~850°C). Three types of metamorphism exist: contact, dynamic, and regional. Metamorphism produced with increasing pressure and temperature conditions is known as prograde metamorphism. Conversely, decreasing temperatures and pressure characterize retrograde metamorphism
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What Is Subduction? Subduction-caused volcanism and earthquake activity occur frequently along the outer edges of the Pacific Ocean in an area known as the Pacific Ring of Fire. In fact, this area has seen the eight most powerful earthquakes ever recorded and is home to over 75 percent of the world's active and dormant volcanoes.
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metamorphism The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. metamorphism, in geology, process of change in the structure, texture, or composition of rocks caused by agents of heat, deforming pressure, shearing stress, hot, chemically active fluids, or a combination of these, acting while the rock being changed remains essentially in the solid state.
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At which boundary does subduction stop occurring, resulting in a mountain range? 2016-10-11T05:11:15-04:00. Subduction occurs at convergent tectonic plate boundaries, resulting in high rates of volcanism, earthquakes and mountain building.
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- Cataclastic Metamorphism Cataclastic metamorphism occurs as a result of mechanical deformation, like when two bodies of rock slide past one another along a fault zone. Heat is generated by the friction of sliding along such a shear zone, and the rocks tend to be mechanically deformed, being crushed and pulverized, due to the shearing.
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- Metamorphism occurs because rocks undergo changes in temperature and pressure and may be subjected to differential stress and hydrothermal fluids. Metamorphism occurs because some minerals are stable only under certain conditions of pressure and temperature. When pressure and temperature change, chemical reactions occur to cause the minerals in the rock to change to an assemblage that is stable at the new pressure and temperature conditions.
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2014 FRQ A2) Explain how subduction leads to volcanic activity. One of the plates will be pushed down by great pressure and temperatures so deep that the water from the subducting slab will begin to accumulate between both plates then eventually the plate will melt once the water lowers the temperature of the mantle. The magma then rises to the surface to produce a linear belt of volcanoes.
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- Contact metamorphism occurs typically around intrusive igneous rocks as a result of the temperature increase caused by the intrusion of magma into cooler country rock. The area surrounding the intrusion where the contact metamorphism effects are present is called the metamorphic aureole.
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Class Notes - Metamorphism Metamorphism and Plate Boundaries. 1  At a divergent margin basaltic lava flows out on the relatively cold sea floor. 2  Heat flows from the magma into the cold sea floor sediments/rocks and bakes them: contact metamorphism. 3  At a convergent margin cold sea floor is subducted beneath another plate. Temperatures and pressures at the base of the thickening crust gradually increase: regional metamorphism. 2  When two plates slide past one another the pressures (directed) can be quite high whereas the increase in temperature due to friction tend to be relatively low: dynamic metamorphism.
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Tectonic Plate Motion The formation of volcanoes is a result of the subduction of the oceanic crust. As the oceanic crust gets forced deeper into the Earth the increasing heat and pressure releases trapped water and gases, the combing effect of which is the crust melting to form magma.
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- Metamorphism and metamorphic rocks. Metamorphism is the recrystallization of minerals in pre-existing, parent, igneous or sedimentary rock (protolith). Takes place in response to changes in P and T as well as to fluids and deformation. This can happen because the lithosphere is dynamic and rocks may be buried or dragged to great depths by the motion in the lithosphere and then brought back up again. Causes of metamorphism. Heat and pressure are main causes.
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- Pressure–Temperature Conditions of Metamorphism Figure 1. A: pressure versus temperature diagram showing the main domain of metamorphism in crustal rocks, between the field of diagenesis at low temperature and pressure and the wet solidus of granites and of basaltic systems. Source: drawn after Bucher and Frey, 1994.
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Obduction In the situation where a spreading ridge approaches a subduction zone, the ridge collides with the subduction zone, at which time there will develop a complex interaction of subduction-related tectonic sedimentary, and spreading-related tectonic igneous activity.
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Mountain formation When plates collide or undergo subduction (that is – ride one over another), the plates tend to buckle and fold, forming mountains. Most of the major continental mountain ranges are associated with thrusting and folding or orogenesis.
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- Metamorphism occurs because some minerals are stable only under certain conditions of pressure and temperature. When pressure and temperature change, chemical reactions occur to cause the minerals in the rock to change to an assemblage that is stable at the new pressure and temperature conditions.he original rock that has undergone metamorphism is called the protolith. Protolith can be any type of rock and sometimes the changes in texture and mineralogy are so dramatic that is difficult to distinguish what the protolith was.
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- 1. Introduction “Metamorphism” of a given rock body occurs in response to significant changes of intensive variables, such as pressure, temperature, and composition, which disturb the pre-existing equilibrium conditions and force the rock to reach a new state of more stable equilibrium.
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- Geology Relating to metamorphism. Metamorphic rocks are formed when igneous, sedimentary, or other metamorphic rocks undergo a physical change due to extreme heat and pressure. These changes often produce folded layers and veins in the rocks, and they can also cause pockets of precious minerals to form.